[2] Rodska began acting professionally in the late 1960s and got his first big break when he was chosen to appear in Follyfoot, which ran for three years from 1971 to 1973.
From then on, he appeared in numerous series such as the 1977 BBC adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth, in which he played Esca, and the film version of The Likely Lads, Z-Cars, The Tomorrow People, Coronation Street, Brookside, Bergerac and Casualty, and Duncan Fraser in the feature-length Tenko Christmas special Reunion.
He continued to act on television, recently appearing on Doc Martin and as DI Dennis Carter in the BBC's 55 Degrees North,[4] and in the 2008 drama Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley.
On TV he played Winston Churchill three times (in l'Appel du 18 Juin for France 2, for the BBC and on The History Channel), 'Bomber' Harris, Captain Smith of the Titanic, Neil Kinnock, Lord Beaverbrook, and President Truman.
Rodska was married to a French woman, Jacqueline Mousny, while in Follyfoot and they had a son, Benjamin, who played the lead role in the 1985 television adaptation of Oliver Twist, in which his father also appeared[5] and a daughter, Camille.