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While making his West End debut as "Henry Antrobus" in Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "There Shall Be No Night", he was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who cast him in his own production, Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" (Phoenix Theatre, 1945), opposite Olivier's then-wife, Vivien Leigh.

He joined the Old Vic Company and Olivier, one of its directors, on a 1948 tour of Australia and New Zealand to perform "The School for Scandal", "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "Richard III", then played "Orsino" in a BBC television production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (1950), before signing a film contract with the Rank Organisation.

(1957) He acted in William Wycherley's play, "The Country Wife", at the Chelsea Palace Theatre and Adelphi Theatre in London, England with Sir Robert Stephens, Esme Percy, Marian Spencer, Sheila Ballantine, Brian Hankins, Frederick Treves, John Moffatt, Esmond Knight, Dame Joan Plowright CBE and Shelagh Fraser in the cast. George Devine was the director.

(1949) He acted in the Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England and on the Australasian Tour with Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, George Relph and Peter Cushing in the cast. John Burrell, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson were the directors.