sentences:  He was best known for playing Richard 'Fagin' Hepplewhite in the Welsh situation comedy "High Hopes".Prior to training as an actor at the Arts Educational Trust in London, he was a surveyor.His theatre work included repertory seasons at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, the Liverpool Playhouse, the Connaught Theatre, Worthing, and the Grand Theatre, Swansea.