His first recorded appearance was as a room service waiter in 1938’s The Lady Vanishes – pictured.
Another notable film appearance was as the Newgate Governor at the hanging scene in Haunted Strangler (or Grip of the Strangler) (1958) which starred Boris Karlof.
His career developed when he moved to South Africa during the mid-1950's where he learnt to speak Afrikaans. He starred in Hou die Blink Kant Bo (translation Keep the Shiny Side Up) in 1960. He continued acting appearing in a number of stage, films and TV productions right through to the late 1980's both in English and in Afrikaans. At one point he became the chairman of teh South African Actors' Equity Association.was t