
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 S…

28 Weeks Later
as Geoff

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
as Davies the School

Born Kicking
as William Curtley

Deceptions
Murder Elite
as Inspector Moss

George & Mildred
as Bridges

The Odessa File
as Israeli General

Regan
as Det. Chief Insp. Haskins

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
as Rogerson

Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Gardiner

Bad Girls
as Clive Mills · 1 ep.

Heartbeat
as Jim Pinder · 1 ep.

No Job for a Lady
as Norman · 18 ep.
The Nineteenth Hole
as George Brady (The Captain) · 7 ep.

You Must Be The Husband
13 ep.

Lovejoy
as Commander Jolly · 1 ep.

The Bounder
as Scrimshaw · 1 ep.

Hallelujah!
as Brig. Langton · 3 ep.
West End Tales
as The Bishop · 4 ep.

Minder
as Supt. Mason · 2 ep.