From 1945 to 1950, he was a major performer for Laurence Olivier's Old Vic Company at the New Theatre, St Martin's Lane.
Had one daughter Fanny.
He made his stage debut in 1932.
Spent five months during the late 1940s as director of Worthing Repertory.
Studied acting at the Old Vic school under Harcourt Williams and 'Murray MacDonald'. He made his stage debut as the gaoler in the Old Vic production of "The Winter's Tale" in 1932, and his West End debut happened a couple of years later.
Trained as a lawyer and was called to the Middle Temple bar in 1963, though he never practiced.
Was a Communist party member in the 1940s and early '50s; while he eventually renounced the Soviet model, he remained a committed socialist.