...School]], [[Horsham]]. He trained to be an actor at the [[Old Vic]] acting school in London and joined the Old Vic theatre company in 1952.<ref name="Stevens ...e children's television programme ''[[Play School (British TV series)|Play School]]'' from 1964 to 1967. He was best known as the narrator of ''[[The Magic R

...J. K. Smith]] and author [[Colin Dexter]]) before reading modern languages at [[Trinity College Dublin]], and trained as a Latin and French teacher (he c ...is teacher training, McCarthy appeared in repertory theatre in [[Oxford]], at the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] and in the [[West End theatre|West End]].

| image = George Martin - backstage at LOVE.jpg | caption = Martin backstage at the Beatles' ''Love'' show, Las Vegas, {{c.|lk=no|2006}}