Career
He played the fish shop man in First of the Summer Wine. He also played "Charlie the moonlighting gravedigger" in the Beiderbecke Tapes. He was in The Royle Family as Joe Carroll, and played the part of Len Reynolds in Independent Television"s Emmerdale from 2001 until the character"s death on 17 May 2007 in Emmerdale Village"s 500th anniversary episode.
He also starred in the film Brassed Office and the television series lieutenant Ain"t Half Hot, Mum and Chucklevision.