- Married actress Patricia Phoenix in hospital a week before she died of lung cancer.
- Daughter, the barrister Cherie Blair, QC, is married to Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK.
- Almost burned himself to death in a fire at his flat in 1979, and remained hospitalized for months.
- Elected president of Equity, the actors union
- Suffered a stroke in 2010.
- Moved to Ireland in 2003, but returned to the UK in 2006 after suffering anti-English bias.
- Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2004.
- Tried a number of things before going to sea as a cabin boy with the Cunard Line but was fired for missing the boat.
- Daughters - Cherie Blair, Lyndsey Booth, Jenia, Bronwen Booth, Sarah (known as Lauren Booth), Emma Booth, Joanne Booth and Lucy Booth.
- Had chronic heart failure and emphysema.
- He started acting in rep and was seen and picked by Johnny Speight for 'Til Death Us Do Part.
- Father of journalist Lauren Booth, and of Emma Booth.
- Daughter Lauren (Sarah Jane) with model Susie Riley.
- Grandfather of Euan Blair.
- Daughters Bronwen and Jenia with Julia Allen.
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