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• Almost didn't get accepted into RADA because of a skin condition on his face.
• One of the main reasons he was hired for the 1983 British series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was because he could do a Liverpool accent, which he had learned while living in a city hostel for two years as a teen.
• Lent his voice to the Wallace and Gromit features Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and Flushed Away (2006).
• Other voiceover work includes radio, TV commercials, documentaries, cartoons and looping.
• Played John Lennon's father, Freddie, in the 2010 biopic Lennon Naked.