He appeared in films such as The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970), Scrooge (1970, in which he performed the Academy Award-nominated Best Original Song "Thank You Very Much"), The Day of the Jackal (1973), and The Fourth Protocol (1987).

He also narrated the children's animated TV series Old Bear Stories and appeared as Andre, the comically corrupt French policeman who aided Michael Caine in his romantic/financial schemes in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

[7] Rodgers's second wife was the actress Elizabeth Garvie; they frequently appeared on stage together and toured giving readings from the works of Jane Austen[10] and Robert Browning, among others.

[1] Rodgers made his first West End appearance in 1947, aged 14, in Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Returning to London in November 1957 he joined the cast of The Boy Friend at Wyndham's Theatre.