Career
He ranks amongst the most prolific character actors of his generation with over 400 roles on stage, films, television and commercials. A recent return to the stage saw him playing Ironside, in An English Tragedy, a new play by Oscar-winning playwright Ronald Harwood. A generation of young adults know him as Mr Tucknott the pompous and long suffering bank manager in the classic Bodger and Badger series on BBCTV. He was 23 and she was in the sixth form at a local school and worked as a volunteer usherette.
He has also had sculpture exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London, where he has lived for most of his life.
He has a long connection with the Theatre Royal, Stratford, E15, where with Jeff Teare and Patrick Prior he pioneered a series of political dramas, developing and performing leading roles in satirical attacks on Margaret Thatchers government. The same team produced pantomimes for many years during the 1980s and 90"s which set a standard in British Theatre for integrity and quality.
His recent television work has included spells in Emmerdale and Doctors (television series), Heartbeat (United Kingdom television series) and two films with director Norman Hull based on true life events that revolve around the crimes of unlikely individuals, The Canoe Manitoba and the Antiques Rogueshow, and has completed filming on Abrahams Point with Mackenzie Crook and Harriet Walter.