He is best known for playing "Zippy" from the ITV children's show Rainbow since the early 1970s and trained at the Little Angel Theatre, London under John Wright.
Angelo (Purcell Room, London) Soldiers Tale, The Box of Toys, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Genevieve De Brabant, Reynard the Fox.
His numerous television credits began in 1964 with A Touch of Don Juan (BBC - narrated by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), The Little Mermaid (Associated Re-diffusion), Late Night line up (BBC), Mak the Sheep stealer (ATV) Michael Bentine's Potty Time, The Tommy Cooper Show both for Thames Television.
Film appearances include: The Naked Runner which starred Frank Sinatra, A Dandy in Aspic, Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Beauty and the Beast, and Day One Commercials include Roundtree's Jelly Tots, Harvest Crunch, American Yellow Page's, London Docklands Crows and even one for a Swedish Toilet Roll.
In 2010 he operated marionettes for a series of Diet Coke commercials created by UK Ad Agency Mother Advertising.