First and foremost a stage actor,[citation needed] Greenstreet played leading roles from the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen to Orton, Wilde, and Coward in the UK and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
[citation needed] Greenstreet appeared in the 1985 BBC television adaptation of Brat Farrar.
[2] In the science-fiction series Doctor Who, Greenstreet played Ikona in the 1987 serial Time and the Rani.
[4] His most high-profile screen role is probably the part of Mike Hardy in the BBC horseracing drama Trainer, which was shown from 1991 to 1992.
[citation needed] Prior to its release, however, with the burgeoning worldwide audience demand for high-quality TV drama and on-demand box sets,[citation needed] the film's producers were approached to recut and release Silent Hours not as a film, but as a TV miniseries.