He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew," in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican Theatre in London, England with Michael Siberry, Josie Lawrence, Paul Benthall, Dermot Kerrigan, Mark Lockyer, Clifford Rose, Tilly Blackwood, and Jamie Hayes in the cast. Gale Edwards was director.
Having become famous in British TV comedy by playing first a medical student and then a doctor, he died, by a tragic irony, in his doctor's waiting-room.
