Career
After leaving school, he trained to be a painter at Chelsea Art College. In the early 1960s as "Whispering" Paul McDowell he was a vocalist with the British 1920s-style jazz band the Temperance Seven, which had a Number. 1 hit in Britain. The album Guggenheim was released in 1972 on Indigo Records, and distributed by Decca Records.
His television roles include: Mr.
Collinson, a sour-faced prison officer in Porridge, several editions of Dave Allen at Large, Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years as Churchill’s butler and The Two of Us as Mr. Phillips. Film roles include a Scottish laird in The Thirty Nine Steps.
As a screenwriter he wrote for Sheila Hancock and The Two Ronnies and he has more recently concentrated on writing and teaching t"ai chi ch"uan.