Notable roles

• The voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in radio and television adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the original radio versions, he also played a number of minor characters including Gag Halfrunt, The Ruler of the Universe, the whale and Frankie Mouse.
• Reader for the original audiobook versions of the Hitchhiker's Guide series, books one through five.
• Parolles in All's Well That Ends Well, Royal Shakespeare Company & Broadway -
• Peter Stockman in An Enemy of The People for The National Theatre & The Ahmandson Theatre Los Angeles
• Mr Brownlow in Oliver! The Musical
• Cousin Jasper in Brideshead Revisited
• John Jolly in Clockwise
• George Mole, father of Adrian Mole in the two ITV series
• The father of Kevin the Teenager in a comedy series by Harry Enfield.
• Jack, left-wing teacher and morose husband of singer Anna in Rock Follies. The role can be seen as a prototype for Marvin.
• He played the part of a burglary victim in the episode The Queen's Birthday Present in Series 1 of The Thin Blue Line (TV series) (BBC 1995)
• George Smith, main character in Colin Swash's SciFi radio comedy Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (1998, BBC)
• Geoffrey Parkes, the Senior Cashier in The Peter Principle (TV series) (1997 and 2000, BBC)
• Hector in the West End revival of Alan Bennet's The History Boys.
• Torvold Helmer, the overbearing husband of Nora Helmer in an 1981 rendition of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House in Stratford, England -S.W.E.T. Award- now known as the Laurence Olivier Award. Also nominated for three other awards in the same season.
• Anatole Lunacharsky, a Communist leader, in Robert Bolt's play State of Revolution (1977).
• The father of Melody and Harmony Parker in The Queen's Nose
• Professor Calculus in the BBC Radio dramatisation of The Adventures of Tintin series of books by Hergé
• Quirk in Love on a Branch Line
• Dr. Edward Wilson in The Last Place on Earth
• Major Prentice in The New Avengers
• Eldane in Doctor Who
• Colonel Berkely in Sharpe's Sword
• Major Robert Steele in the movie A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• Prime Minister in the 2009 movie The Boat That Rocked
• A guest in episode 5 of season 4 of A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• McKenzie, the colliery manager, in Brassed Off (1996).

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