His credits include The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Avengers (1965), The Killing of Sister George (1968), The Misfit (1970–1971), Pygmalion (1973), Swallows and Amazons (1974), Come Play With Me (1977), The Wild Geese (1978), Spooner's Patch (1979), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Tangiers (1982), Absolute Beginners (1986), Minder (1985–1989), Scandal (1989), Let Him Have It (1991), Taggart (1992), and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993).

[2] Whilst serving in Benghazi, North Africa, he appeared in the Terence Rattigan comic play French Without Tears.

[2] In the West End, he appeared in The Long and the Short and the Tall (1959),[5] The Ginger Man, The Singular Man, Androcles and the Lion (1961),[5] The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet (1961),[5] Purple Dust by Seán O'Casey, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Joseph Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance and High Society.

He also played Falstaff in a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park.

His only Broadway show was the flop La Grosse Valise by Robert Dhéry, Gérard Calvi and Harold Rome.