Career
He is perhaps best known as Mr Boswell in The Liver Birds and as Ralph Hardwicke in Brookside, a part he played for over 6 years. He was born in Canada but moved to Liverpool as a child. After he left school he worked in art studios and performed in amateur dramatics.
He was then asked to double for the actor Sam Kydd in a film being shot in Birkenhead.
His television appearances included. Bergerac, Doctor Who, Last of the Summer Wine, I Didn"t Know You Cared, The Good Life and Porridge, as the lightbulb eating prisoner Evans.
He wrote scripts for television programmes including Z-Cars and for radio and stage productions. He was also an after dinner speaker and narrator.
He died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 67.