He acted in Alan Ayckbourn's play, "Bedroom Farce," in a National Theatre production at the Lyttelton Theatre in London, England with Michael Gough, Joan Hickson, Michael Kitchen, Stephen Moore, Polly Adams, Susan Littler, and Maria Aitken in the cast. Peter Hall and Alan Ayckbourn were directors.
Prolific character actor from the London stage, long with the Royal National Theatre. A long-standing affliction with alcoholism contributed to his death in 1998.