Briefly worked in his father's watchmaking business when he was young.
He has four children.
Lives in Bristol, England.
Best known for his roles as Harry Hawkins in BBC's Softly, Softly and as Frank Tate in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
His father, Clifford Norman Bowler (1899-1993), was a watchmaker and jeweller who had a shop at 54 Mill Lane, West Hampstead, London, where he is commemorated by a plaque.
