- Attended Wimbledon College, a Jesuit school in England.
- He was awarded the 1988 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
- Had the chance to act in Hollywood but flatly refused.
- Had elocution lessons as he spoke with a thick Cockney accent.
- As a boy of 17 he was a member of Donald Wolfit's company.
- A shy man by nature, the actor always kept a low profile away from work.
- Played the quintessential Professor Moriarty in the Jeremy Brett series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Educated at Tweedale Elementary School at Carshalton,Surrey.when 15 he said he wanted to be an actor but his bus driver father said there was no future in it so he went to Wimbledon Technical College to learn a trade there and a year later was working for the Marconi Telegraph and Wireless company soldering transmitter joints.
- Among the list of possibles for the roles of Fallanda, Dr. Armstrong, Bukovsky and sir Percy in Lifeforce (1985).
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