Born: 16th June, 1938
Birthplace: Sunderland
TV programmes include:
- The Likely Lads (1964-1966)
- Take Three Girls (1969)
- Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? (1973-1974)
- When The Boat Comes In (1976-81)
- Only When I Laugh (1979-1982)
- The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985-1988)
- Room At The Bottom (1986-1988)
- Father Matthew's Daughter (1987)
- Andy Capp (1988)
- Second Thoughts (1991-1994)
- The Missing Postman (1997)
- Have Your Cake And Eat It (1997)
- Pay And Display (2000)
- Born And Bred (2002-2004)
- New Tricks (2003-2010)