He acted in Lorraine Hansberry's play, "Les Blancs," at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England with Avril Elgar, Joanne Bern, Paul Hilton, Sean Arnold, Paterson Joseph, directed by Greg Hersov and Marianne Elliott.
He studied design at the Manchester School of Art. While working as a textile designer and printmaker, he became interested in amateur theater. He received a scholarship to a drama school in Kent, and landed his first acting job in 1962 at Bernard Miles's Mermaid theater in London.
