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He was both a pianist and a qualified statistician.

Shortly after completing Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) he had a stroke which ended his acting career. From 1986 he was unable to walk.

Son of a clergyman.

His last film was The Revenge of the Pink Panther after which he retired 2 years later due to ill health and died in 1997.

A screen test in1945 by John Paddy Carstairs resulted in his film debut as an ornithologist in the film Sleeping Car to Trieste after which Carstairs cast him in most of his films.

Made his tv debut in 1948 in ~Dixon o Dock Green.

As a small boy he dressed up as an old woman and went round several villages fooling every one.