He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours List and appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.
Is one of Kenneth Williams' impressions of "people you've never heard of".
His part was cut from the 1970 film Cromwell along with those of William Lucas, Bryan Pringle, George A Cooper, Tony Caunter and Peter Bennett due to the film being too long.