 Prominent, burly character actor of screen and TV, usually cast as rough
diamonds, with stress often on rough rather than diamond. He is now probably
best known for such TV roles as the hero's scruffy father at odds with the
heroine's genteel mother in Three Up, Two Down (BBC, 1985-89), ex-fireman Boon (ITV, 1986) and a gruffly devoted Barkis in David Copperfield (BBC, 1999). Films began with Where's Jack? (d. James Clavell, 1969) and Hamlet (d. Tony Richardson, 1969) and there has been a steady trickle since, including a Supporting Actor BAFTA nomination for Gorky Park (US, d. Michael Apted, 1983), and a droll turn as a yokel in Withnail and I (d. Bruce Robinson, 1986), as well as assorted policemen and thugs. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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