- He had suffered from depression for many years, and famously went missing for a time in 1987.
- After On the Buses (1969) ended he struggled to get any acting work at all because he had become typecast as Jack Harper.
- He was treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in 1995 after a suicide attempt.
- He worked as a bus driver in real life, in order to pay his way through RADA.
- Graduated from the university of the East End of London and had intellectual aspirations. He had his own academic opinions of comedy and was not interested in listening to others.
- He was a stand up comic at strip shows.
- He married ex - bunny girl Kim in 1972.
- He re wrote the play 'Oh Calcutta and made it ruder.
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