Was a brilliant artist and made puppets as his hobby.
Died of a heart attack in March 1984, the same week he appeared in C4's
"Winter Sunlight", also dying of a heart attack.
He appeared in two different adaptations of the 1843 novella "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens: Scrooge (1970) and A Christmas Carol (1984). He played the 1st Gentleman of Charity in the former and Pemberton in the latter.
2 children: Tessa Jane born March 17, 1956 (who married Michael
Waterhouse June 16, 1984) and Julia Clare born April 27, 1959