Once he left school he would train as a type setter and printer for most of his teen years at John Dickinson Stationery's Apsley Mill.

Notable productions there included "Murder in the Cathedral" as Thomas Becket, "The Heiress", "Arms and the Man", "Auntie Mame", "Separate Tables" "Pygmalion" as Henry Higgins, for which he won the Western Ontario Drama Festival Phelps Award for Best Actor in 1958 and Sir Thomas More in "A Man for All Seasons" for which he won the Henry Osborne Trophy for Best Actor in the Dominion of Canada Award at the Dominion Drama Festival in 1965.

He appeared that year, alongside actors such as Zoe Caldwell, Paxton Whitehead and Susan Clark, in productions of "The Apple Cart" as Pamphilius and "Misalliance" as the pilot, Joey Percival.

In 1967 he began performing as part of the resident company at the Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo, New York with actors such as John Schuck.

[7] In the 1970s he served as Production Stage Manager for the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, and then retired for most of the 1980s, working again as a printer and focusing on his family.

He appeared in advertisements for The History Channel and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health as well as small roles or extra work in the films The Crucible (1996), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), The Proposition (1998) and State and Main (2000).