Career

He was Wernher von Braun in the British Broadcasting Corporation television docudrama Space Race, Nero in Howard Brenton"s play Paul at the National Theatre of Great Britain and appeared several times as Stephen Maturin in the British Broadcasting Corporation radio adaptations of the Patrick O"Brian Aubrey–Maturin novels and Peter Guillam in three John le Carré adaptations.

Achievements

• He played British agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck"s 2012 Iran-based political thriller, Argo, winner among other things of the 2013 Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe for Best Picture, and Merv the husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach"s fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.