Biography

He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1960.

He was building houses as a manual labourer in the early 1950s.

He was one of the earliest Asian actors to appear regularly on British television and it was during an era when it was still widely regarded as acceptable for white actors to play ethnic parts.

He has played in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

He was considered for the role of the superstitious Egyptian Ibrahim Namin in Pyramids of Mars: Part One (1975), but it went instead to the white actor Peter Mayock. He did, however, appear in the following year's The Hand of Fear: Part One (1976).