Brother of Sheila Aza and uncle of actress-turned-journalist Gillian Gore (1954-2010) and actor-turned-editor/location manager Graham Aza.
His daughter with his wife Joy Shelton, Jennifer Tafler also appeared in some movies. Second child is actor Jonathan Tafler.
Related by marriage to director Lewis Gilbert who cast him in a number of against-type roles in such films as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
Shifty-eyed British character actor of the 50s who specialized in playing elusive, cigarette-dangling shysters and thieves.