Trivia

Together with his partner Monty Berman, they were the main competition to Hammer Films up to 1959. They tried to duplicate what Hammer was turning out, including doing a feature adaptation of a television serial and later doing horror films in color. They even used the same writers and many actors that had been used by Hammer.

As a sergeant in the British army, was one of the first to enter the Reichs Chancellery in Berlin at the end of World War II. He appears in an iconic photograph with his foot on a fallen Nazi stone eagle amidst the ruins.

Held the rights to "The Saint" from the 1962 series (The Saint (1962)] onwards.

With Monty Berman he founded production company Tempean Films. He later formed Bamore with Roger Moore.