His television career began in the mid-fifties and although initially playing small parts, during the sixties he began to take on bigger roles, including the part of Detective Chief Inspector Lewis in the BBC's long-running Softly Softly (1966) series. He often played policemen but none more famous than DCI Frank Haskins in The Sweeney (1974), opposite John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, during the seventies, where he was an admirable foil to Thaw's brash, renegade Inspector Jack Regan. He was also a regular in other TV series such as The Nineteenth Hole (1989), You Must Be the Husband (1987) and Shelley (1979), all during the eighties, and No Job for a Lady (1990) opposite Penelope Keith in the nineties.
L'éveque
Script Writer
Monsignor Bienvenu Myriel, Bishop of Digne
Ercoli
L'avocat général
Bertrand
Raoul Leroy
Monsieur Tourneveau
Inspector Max
Le président des assises
Le directeur de l'hôtel (uncredited)
Edmond Gonin
Garcin
Le commissaire Clergé
M. Punez
Jules
Lavoisier
Monsieur Joannès
Spears
Doctor
Habeneck (uncredited)
Paul, le directeur de la police
Le directeur de l'école
Le Ministre
Henri Lauzet-Duchet, le gouverneur de la Banque de France
(uncredited)
Prison director
Public prosecutor (uncredited)
Ancelin
Public prosecutor
Magistrat
Prison Warden
Nucingen
Le docteur
Bora
Le père Vargas
Count d'Agoult
Abbot Gudin
Malvet
Casimir Gros
Commander Millet
Investigating judge
L'évêque
The man from the hotel
Monsieur Bourride
Maître Canard
Le paysan
Pastor Lewis
Director
Gisèle's father
Doctor Clarenz
Narrator (voice)
Constanzo / Boris Armanian
Monsieur Dumont
Le garde des Sceaux Joseph Barthélémy
Levase, drama professor
Tartuffe
Chaplain (French version)
Pipart
Duca di Forchamps
Doctor Noblet
Philippe de Bray
Le bourgmestre d'Augsbourg
Mongardi padre
Inspecteur Toussaint
L'inspecteur Doirel
Valette
Bibikoff, old Russian General
Lanzel
Chairman of the board of directors
Surgeon
Jordan
Old man from the junkyard
Bartholo
Monsieur Vincent
Émile Brugnon
Edwin Scott
François' tutor
Mr. Arnaud, professor
Colonel of the Fourth R.C.A.
Uncle Henri (segment "Pride")
Lebreteuil
German ambassador
Maitre Poulard
Philibert Routorbe
Mr. Leroy-Gomez
Professor Valensio
Gaston Rodier
Captain Hoggan
Le Major Pinchard
Doctor Renaud
Marcel
Antoine Josserand, le directeur de l'hebdomadaire Lyonnais « Le Canut »
le Capitaine
Monsieur Maréchal - le directeur de l'institution
Karl Richmond
Monsieur Paul
The magician
Adhémar Chouilloux
Monsieur Delay
Cipriano Paoloni - the President
Investigating judge
The room manager
Uncle Anselme
Mr. Klein's Father
Grillo - le gardien de la Tour Farnese
Léon Duval, horse owner
Commissaire Jaillot
Dr. Denis
Father Lauzon
Maître Hervineau
Gaston Lebridel
Vannier
Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois
L'instituteur
Merlín
Le professeur Cyrus Beck
L'abbé Roussard
Chief Prosecutor Roncuzzi
Clara's husband
Bartholo
Philippe Strozzi