He appeared in the first episode of "On the Buses", "The Early Shift" (1969), and the first episode of "Mr. Bean" as "The Examiner" (1990). His other notable roles included as barrister Larry Scott in the 1985 BBC series "Black Silk", by Mustapha Matura and Rudy Narayan. Since 2001, he has played Patrick Trueman in the BBC One television soap opera "EastEnders" and in 2010 he appeared in the Internet spin-off series "". He also starred in a BBC One sitcom called "The Crouches", about a family from Walworth, in South East London. He played the grandfather for both series (2003–2005).