He acted in Alfred Neumann, Edwin Piscator, and Guntram Prufer stage adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, "War and Peace," at the Phoenix Theatre in an Bristol Old Vic Company production with Derek Smith, Paul Eddington, John Franklyn Robbins, Rhoda Lewis, Elizabeth Shepherd, Peter O'Shaughnessy, Ewan Hooper, David Burke, and Antony Tuckey in the cast. Val May was director.
