he played a starring role in "fresh fields" as main character hester's father guy, was uncle greville in "to the manor born" and played colonel culpepper in "terry and june". he had small roles in an episode of "citizen smith" (1977) and an adaptation of "little lord fauntleroy" (1980) and appeared once in "the new avengers" as colonel foster in the episode "dirtier by the dozen". he also had small roles in the bbc sitcoms "hi-de-hi!" ("empty saddles", 1983) and "are you being served?" ("memories are made of this", 1983).