- In 1985 he was ordained as a Church of England minister and alternated acting with church duties.
- He recommended to his friend and Navy Lark colleague Jon Pertwee that he should put his name forward for the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963).
- A distant relation of the novelist George Eliot and illustrator John Tenniel, from whom he gained his middle name.
- Filmed scenes as Hugh Grant's father in Notting Hill (1999) but his part was removed during post production.
- Father of Matthew Evans and Serena Evans, husband of Evangeline Banks and son-in-law of the actor Leslie Banks.
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