[2] Born in Aston, Birmingham, Henry attended the city's Alderlea Boys School in Shard End with Jeff Lynne.
Henry made a guest appearance on the Central Television game show Bullseye, presented by Jim Bowen, on 11 February 1985.
[4] Henry's post-Crossroads career included minor stage roles and the running of a nightclub in Whitchurch, Shropshire, but, in 1994, he returned to television briefly in a tribute to Crossroads, called 30 Years On.
[10] He then played the regular character Frank, a baker's delivery man and later attempted rapist, in the penultimate series of the ITV1 prison drama Bad Girls.
[12] The comic actor Ronnie Barker revealed in his later years that he had suggested Henry for casting as his cellmate Lennie Godber in the sitcom Porridge, but that Richard Beckinsale was chosen instead.