[1] Sachs was born in the town of Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal Colony, present day South Africa.

[4][5][6] He founded an Old Time Music Hall, named the Players' Theatre, in Villiers Street, Charing Cross, London.

He appeared as the Chairman of the Leeds City Varieties in the long-running BBC television series The Good Old Days, which ran from 1953 to 1983, and became known for his elaborate, sesquipedalian introductions of the performers.

[8] He had two appearances in the science fiction series Doctor Who: as Admiral Gaspard de Coligny in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve in 1966 and as Lord President Borusa in Arc of Infinity in 1983.

[10] In January 1984, he was fined £75 for "importuning men for an immoral purpose" at Notting Hill Gate tube station.