
His television career began in the mid-fifties and although initially playing small parts, during the sixties he began to take on bigger roles, including the part of Detective Chief Inspector Lewis in the BBC's long-running Softly Softly (1966) series. He often played policemen but none more famous than DCI Frank Haskins in The Sweeney (1974), opposite John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, during the seventies, where he was an admirable foil to Thaw's brash, renegade Inspector Jack Regan. He was also a regular in other TV series such as The Nineteenth Hole (1989), You Must Be the Husband (1987) and Shelley (1979), all during the eighties, and No Job for a Lady (1990) opposite Penelope Keith in the nineties.

Regan

George & Mildred

The Sweeney

Shelley

The Avengers

The Persuaders!

Bad Girls

The Saint

Lovejoy

The Likely Lads

On the Buses

Our Mother's House

Heartbeat

Z-Cars

Callan

Man in a Suitcase

Hadleigh

Paul Temple

Minder

The Scales of Justice

28週後...

オデッサ・ファイル

The Informers

A Prize of Arms

Two in Clover

Sergeant Cork

ウェールズの山

Deceptions

The Bounder

Perfect Friday

Hallelujah!

Redcap

No Job for a Lady

The Edwardians

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

You Must Be The Husband

Dear Mother... ...Love Albert

Crown Court

Department S

Catch Me a Spy

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Out of This World

No Hiding Place

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Another Day, Another Dollar

On the Run

Born Kicking

A Fear of Strangers

Der Schwur des Soldaten Pooley

1+1=1.5

The Train Now Standing

Detective

The Informer