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Long married to British actress Sheila Gish, they eventually split up in the 1980s. She later married actor/director Denis Lawson and Roland came out of the closet. He subsequently met his longtime companion and they settled in Chiswick.

Best known for playing Julie Christie's gay traveling companion in her Oscar-winning movie Darling (1965), Roland went on to play one of the greatest homosexual characters in British soap, the expatriate Freddie in the BBC's shortlived series Eldorado (1992).

Father of actresses Lou Gish and Kay Curram.

Graduate of Bognor Regis Repertory Theatre, his acting peers there included Rosemary Harris and Michael Hawkins.

His aunt Gertrude Dickin appeared in his pal John Schlesinger's documentary with dramatic inserts Terminus (1961).

His ex-wife died in March of 2005 of facial cancer, in which she lost an eye. Actress/daughter Lou Gish also died of cancer in February of 2006.

Has latterly reinvented himself as a novelist.

West End credits include Noises Off, Ross and Design For Living as well as numerous roles for the RSC and National Theatre.

On stage from 1952 at the Coliseum Theatre, Harrow, Hippodrome, Salford (now Windsor Theatre, Salford).

An alumnus of Brighton College.