He acted in Cole Porter, Adolph Green, and Alan Strachan's musical, "Cole," at the Mermaid Theatre in London, England with Julia McKenzie, Kenneth Nelson, Peter Gale, and Una Stubbs in the cast. Alan Strachan and David Toguri were directors.
One aspect of Bill's life which writers Galton and Simpson picked up on for "Hancock's Half Hour" was that, between the ages of 5 and 19, he genuinely lived in the New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga.