| birth_place = [[Skipton]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], [[England]] ...e=29 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a regular on British screens from the 1970s onwards.

...on BBC regional radio, working in the North region of the BBC Home Service from 1958 with, among others, [[Jimmy Clitheroe]] (who he also appeared with on ...Kid]]'', another show which starred Jimmy Clitheroe, in which he appeared from 1957 as grumpy taxi driver Horatio Higginbottom, a regular role that he con