- Coronation Street (1960) was rejected by ITV several times.
- He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to television drama.
- Portrayed by David Dawson in The Road to Coronation Street (2010).
- He attended Liverpool's Elliott Clarke Theatre School, and was a child actor on the BBC radio show "Children's Hour".
- Partner of Ernst Walder (Elsie Tanner's Polish son-in-law Ivan Cheveski) for several years during the 1960s.
- Expelled after 18 months from Shelagh Elliott-Clarke's Liverpudlian drama school for "rabble-rousing".
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