Trivia

Ranked #47 in the 100 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Characters of All Time for his performance as Roy Evans (2010).

Initially booked for another role in Doctor Who: Colony In Space.

Ranked #57 in The 100 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Characters of All Time for his performance as Roy Evans (2015).

The final version of Cromwell (1970), at one stage, was one hundred eighty minutes long, but it was cut down to one hundred forty-one minutes, deleting several featured roles in the process including: Felix Aylmer (in his final film) as an archbishop, and Bryan Pringle, Peter Bennett, Tony Caunter, George A. Cooper, and Willam Lucas.

As of 2017 he is the 10th-longest serving actor in the history of EastEnders (1985) (tied with John Altman, Ricky Groves, Shane Richie, Nitin Ganatra and Himesh Patel, and behind only Adam Woodyatt, Steve McFadden, Perry Fenwick, Sid Owen, Rudolph Walker, a tied Mike Reid and Todd Carty, John Bardon, a tied Bill Treacher, James Alexandrou, Derek Martin, Jake Wood and Jamie Borthwick, and a tied Ross Kemp, Dean Gaffney and Shaun Williamson), having played the character Roy Evans for 9 years (from 1994 until 2003).