Though he is best remembered for playing Jim Branning on the English soap opera EastEnders, this popular actor also had a successful stage career. He received a 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for his role in the 1987 London stage production of Kiss Me, Kate. Before beginning his acting career, he drove an inter-terminal bus at London's Heathrow Airport. He began his professional stage career at the age of thirty and first appeared on television in the 1970s.
