 He later played Russian politician Alexander Kerensky in "Nicholas and Alexandra" (1971).His other film credits include "The Duellists", "Black Beauty", "The Land That Time Forgot" (1975) and "The Krays" (1990, as gangster Eddie Pellam), "When Saturday Comes", as well as Mel Gibson’s "Hamlet".In the 1980s, at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, he took the title role in Gogol's "The Government Inspector", directed by the Russian actor and director Oleg Tabakov, also performing on stage in Little Malcolm and His Struggle against the Eunuchs (Wick Blagdon), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Hamlet), Nicholas Nickleby (Mr Mantalini/Mr Snevellicci), Waiting for Godot, Curse of the Starving Classes for the RSC, Taking Sides, Precious Bane with Vanessa Redgrave, Coriolanus with Steven Berkoff, and Bingo with Patrick Stewart.