Birthday
1931/04/19
Day of death
2009/12/05 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Also know as
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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...Read more
(2007) 28 Weeks Later
as Geoff
(1995) The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
as Davies the School
(1967) Another Day, Another Dollar
as Danny
(1963) The Informers
as Police Inspector (uncredited)
(1963) On the Run
as Meredith
(1967) Our Mother's House
as Mr. Moley
(1962) A Prize of Arms
as Military Policeman with Dog
(1985) Murder Elite
as Inspector Moss
(1971) Man Charged
as Calvin
(1970) Perfect Friday
as 1st Airport Official
(1971) Catch Me a Spy
as The Husband
(1972) Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Gardiner
(1973) Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
as Rogerson
(1974) The Odessa File
as Israeli General
(1974) Regan
as Det. Chief Insp. Haskins
(1992) Born Kicking
as William Curtley
(1985) Deceptions
as ---
(1964) A Fear of Strangers
as Detective Sergeant Miller
(1980) George & Mildred
as Bridges
(1975) The Sweeney
as Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins
(1969) On the Buses
as ---
(1969) Department S
as Mendham
(1990) No Job for a Lady
as ---
(1962) Z-Cars
as ---
(1961) The Avengers
as Gilbert
(1971) The Persuaders!
as Peter Hayward
(1992) Heartbeat
as Jim Pinder
(1979) Minder
as ---
(1962) The Scales of Justice
as Mr. Andrews
(1962) Out of This World
as ---
(1972) Crown Court
as ---
(1962) The Saint
as Mundt
(1962) The Scales of Justice
as Jason
(1967) Callan
as ---
(1981) Hallelujah!
as ---
(1986) Lovejoy
as Commander Jolly
(1987) You Must Be The Husband
as ---
(1979) Shelley
as ---
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1967) Man in a Suitcase
as ---
(1981) Hallelujah!
as Brig. Langton
(1989) The Nineteenth Hole
as ---
(1972) The Train Now Standing
as ---
(1981) West End Tales
as ---
(1964) Detective
as ---
(1968) The Jazz Age
as ---
(1972) The Edwardians
as ---
(1969) Hadleigh
as ---
(1969) Paul Temple
as ---
(1999) Bad Girls
as Clive Mills
(1972) Crown Court
as John Gilroy
(1979) Minder
as Superintendent Mason
(1979) Minder
as Supt. Mason
(1982) The Bounder
as Scrimshaw
(1964) The Likely Lads
as Jeffcock
(1969) Dear Mother... ...Love Albert
as A.C. Strain
(1961) The Avengers
as Manservant
(1961) The Avengers
as Sexton
(1979) Dick Turpin
as Warren