
Acting
His television career began in the mid-fifties and although initially playing small parts, during the sixties he began to take on bigger roles, including the part of Detective Chief Inspector Lewis in the BBC's long-running Softly Softly (1966) series. He often played policemen but none more famous than DCI Frank Haskins in The Sweeney (1974), opposite John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, during the seventies, where he was an admirable foil to Thaw's brash, renegade Inspector Jack Regan. He was also a regular in other TV series such as The Nineteenth Hole (1989), You Must Be the Husband (1987) and Shelley (1979), all during the eighties, and No Job for a Lady (1990) opposite Penelope Keith in the nineties.

Crown Court
1972

The Avengers
1961

Heartbeat
1992

The Wednesday Play
1964

The Saint
1962

Minder
1979

Z-Cars
1962

No Hiding Place
1959

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965

The Sweeney
1975

The Persuaders!
1971

Bad Girls
1999

Lovejoy
1986

28 Weeks Later
2007

Harry Hill's TV Burp
2002

On the Buses
1969

Man in a Suitcase
1967

Callan
1967

Department S
1969

Sergeant Cork
1963

Detective
1964

Shelley
1979

Paul Temple
1969

Out of This World
1962

Redcap
1964

Hadleigh
1969

The Scales of Justice
1962

The Edwardians
1972

The Likely Lads
1964

The Informer
1966

The Odessa File
1974

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
1995

Number 10
1983

Hallelujah!
1981

No Job for a Lady
1990

Two in Clover
1969