He acted in A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame's play, "Toad of Toad Hall," at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, England with Martin Friend, Richard Goolden, Richard Cornish, David King, and Hugh Ross in the cast. Peter Watson was director.
I got in one night and my mother called out from their bedroom. She was in tears and said, 'What have you done?' Apparently two men had called around asking for me, said they were from the Post Office, and it was about a letter. My dad, however, had noticed that, as they produced their documents, 'CID' was printed inside their briefcase.