His professional career began in 1869 with a bit part in the first Australian production of Dion Boucicault's play Formosa under Dind and Hoskins at the Prince of Wales' Theatre.

In 1886 he played at Sydney's Opera House, at that time leased by Majeroni and Wilson, whose company comprised John L. Hall, H. N. Douglas, Walter E. Baker, and Docy Mainwaring.

[3] He joined Searelle and Harding's Opera Company in 1886 for a Queensland tour, with John L. Hall to New Zealand, and back to Australia to play in The Miner's Daughter, an adaptation of a Bret Harte novel, with Carrie Swain as "Mab".

He played "Triplet" to Emily Melville's Peg Woffington in Masks and Faces, and toured Jim the Penman with David Christie Murray and Harry St Maur.

[3] In 1899, with the approval of Robert Brough, he took three of his best pieces, Paulton's Niobe, Grundy's A Village Priest and Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray on a tour of inland New South Wales.

[7] For 40 years he was seldom out of work, appearing in everything from pantomime and vaudeville to Shakespeare, with the likes of Robert Brough, Simon Lazar, Eduardo Majeroni, G. B. W. Lewis, and W. J.

[8] He was particularly known for "old man" parts, playing Hardcastle, in She Stoops to Conquer at the Criterion and Briskett in F. Thorpe Tracey and Ivan Berlin's Queen of the Night at the Palace Theatre, Sydney in his last year, before dying aged 57 at St Vincent's Hospital.