during the 1930s he performed regularly in the so-called "quota quickies". one of his earliest roles was as the heroic lead in the 1937 film "the last adventurers". he appeared in the film "in which we serve" (1942) and also in the hitchcock film "stage fright" (1950). he featured as detective inspector berkeley in two episodes of edgar lustgarten's drama series, "scotland yard" ("person unknown", 1956 and "bullet from the past", 1957). he made a brief appearance in the 1985 american film "national lampoon's european vacation" which starred chevy chase. in this film, berkeley played a british man who is involved in a minor road accident with the griswalds.