Played the title role of Antonio, the merchant, in Caedmon Records' complete recording of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", starring Hugh Griffith as Shylock and Dorothy Tutin as Portia.
He had been a professional actor for twenty years before starting to work in films, but was then in so many over the next 25 years that the film critic Barry Took remarked that, if he ever saw a British film that Andrews wasn't in, he began to worry, "because I realize he must have been ill".
