Theatre credits include: his debut in 1930 while still at RADA (Achmed in Carpet Slippers at the Embassy Theatre). Before and after the war-he served in the army-there were few years when he was absent from the stage. Two Noël Coward premieres enliven a list dominated by forgotten plays: Nuitane in Aloma (Q Theatre, 1931); Leiba in Lady in Waiting (Embassy, 1931); the Commentator in Vile Bodies (Vaudeville, 1932); Michael O'Dea in Ourselves Alone (Globe, 1932); Montague in Josephine Tey's Richard of Bordeaux (New, 1932); Arnold in Philomel (Ambassadors, 1932); Weyland in The Rats of Norway (Playhouse, 1933); Hensch in The Ace (Lyric, 1933); Sanger in Escape Me Never (Apollo, 1933, New York, 1935); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Regent's Park, 1934); Clive in After October (Arts and Criterion, 1936); Torday in Farewell Performance (Lyric, 1936); Arne in Women of Property (Queen's, 1937); Will in Gertie Maude (St Martin's, 1937); Nigel in Noël Coward's Operette (His Majesty's, 1938); Marco Polo in Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions (Westminster, 1938); Carrington in Behold the Bride (Shaftesbury, 1939); Dick in Believe It or Not (New, 1940); Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1945-47); Clive in A Man About a Dog (Prince's, 1949); Shavings, an evening of one-act plays by Bernard Shaw (St Martin's, 1951); the Earl of Dawlish in The Moonraker (Saville, 1952); the Marquess of Heronden in Coward's Quadrille (Phoenix, 1952); Tweedledum/Red Knight in Alice Through the Looking Glass (Tour, 1953, Prince's, 1954); Denver in The Love Machine (Tour, 1954); Robert in Dead On Nine (Westminster, 1955); the revue Blueprint (Irving, 1955); Archie Rice in The Entertainer (Tour, 1958); Brooks in Innocent as Hell (Lyric Hammersmith, 1960); The Count in The Cavern (Globe, 1966); Sir Colenso Ridgeon in The Doctor's Dilemma (Comedy, 1966); Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew (Nottingham Playhouse, 1974); and Sir Peter Teazle in School for Scandal (Sheffield Crucible, 1974).
