2 children: Tessa Jane born March 17, 1956 (who married Michael Waterhouse June 16, 1984) and Julia Clare born April 27, 1959
Died of a heart attack in March 1984, the same week he appeared in C4's "Winter Sunlight", also dying of a heart attack.
He appeared in two different adaptations of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel "A Christmas Carol": Scrooge (1970) and A Christmas Carol (1984) (TV).
Was a brilliant artist and made puppets as his hobby.