He appeared in more than 160 TV and film productions including, The Silent Battle 1939, A Window in London 1940, Sailors don’t care 1940, The Thief Of Bagdad 1940, George Formby’s Turned Out Nice Again 1941, The Day Will Dawn 1942, We Dive at Dawn 1943, Rakes Progress 1945, Beware of Pity 1946, Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949, The Lavender Hill Mob 1951, Father Brown 1954 and Tread Softly Stranger 1958. His final film was Three on a Spree in 1961.
For Charters and Caldicott fans he played the part of the Doctor in Millions Like Us 1943 (see photo), Jenkins in A Girl In A Million in 1946 and as John Coleman the Critic in Quartet 1948. He also appeared in 1946’s I See A Dark Stranger, the film that Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne were due to appear in reprising their Charters and Caldicott roles, but which didn’t happen to a dispute between the actors and producers.