
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.

The Avengers
1961

The Wednesday Play
1964

Minder
1979

Crown Court
1972

The Saint
1962

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965

Heartbeat
1992

Z-Cars
1962

No Hiding Place
1959

The Persuaders!
1971

28 Weeks Later
2007

The Sweeney
1975

Bad Girls
1999

Lovejoy
1986

Detective
1964

On the Buses
1969

Paul Temple
1969

Callan
1967

Man in a Suitcase
1967

Sergeant Cork
1963

Department S
1969

Shelley
1979

Hadleigh
1969

Redcap
1964

The Scales of Justice
1962

Out of This World
1962

The Likely Lads
1964

The Informer
1966

The Edwardians
1972

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

Hallelujah!
1981

The Odessa File
1974

Number 10
1983

Two in Clover
1969

Dear Mother... ...Love Albert
1969

Armchair Cinema
1974