 His acting works includes playing the fish shop man in "First of the Summer Wine".He also played 'Charlie the moonlighting gravedigger' in the "Beiderbecke Tapes".He was in "The Royle Family" as Joe Carroll, and played the part of Len Reynolds in ITV's "Emmerdale" from 2001 until the character's death on 17 May 2007 in Emmerdale Village's 500th anniversary episode.