Blackburn born actor best known for playing the first Kryten and Talkie Toaster in Red Dwarf. He has appeared in several Alan Bleasdale productions including Boys from the Blackstuff, Scully and GBH and in the John Sullivan sitcoms Roger, Roger and The Green, Green Grass. He also played the anxious father Bevis in Jack Rosenthal's Eskimo Day and its sequel, Cold Enough For Snow

Filmography

• 32 Brinkburn Street — Frank
• The Green Green Grass
• 2003Red Dwarf A–Z — Talkie Toaster (voice, archive footage)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Casten Zivkovic
• Murder in Mind — DCI Edwards
• Oliver Twist — Mr. Bumble
• 1998Basil — Mr. Sherwin
• Roger Roger — Baz
• Vanity Fair — Mr Sedley
• 1997Cold Enough for Snow — Bevis Whittle
• Melissa — Selwyn-Swanton
• Midsomer Murders — Rodney Widger, Sam Hardwick
• 1996Eskimo Day — Bevis
• 1996Roger Roger — Basil
• 1994Fair Game — Carl's Father
• 1994Requiem Apache — Henry
• Wycliffe — Wainwright
• Goodnight Sweetheart — Bookie
• If You See God, Tell Him — Mr Gudgeon
• 1993Splitting Heirs — Sergeant Richardson
• Heartbeat — Harry Pilbeam, Roy Brooks
• G.B.H. — Mr Weller
• In Suspicious Circumstances — Stephen Jewell
• The Brittas Empire — Pirate
• 1990Shooting Stars — Price
• Red Dwarf — Talkie Toaster (voice), Kryten
• 1988The Zero Option — Nugent
• Watching — Registrar
• Casualty — Lenny Shines, Mr. Carnell
• Scully — Steve
• Sherlock Holmes — Inspector Martin
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Inspector Martin
• Boys from the Blackstuff — Donald Moss
• Bergerac — Harry Johnson
• 1981Days at the Beach — Stationmaster
• Leave it to Charlie — Harry Hutchins
• The XYY Man — Window Cleaner
• Yanks Go Home — Harry Duckworth

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years — Self
• 2017Red Dwarf: The 28-Years-Later Affair - Series XII — Self