- He and his wife Jacqueline own a corporate event business in Brighton, called 'The Brilliant Company', which specialises in organising murder mysteries, gameshows, teambuilding events and themed parties.
- Before achieving fame on ITV's Coronation Street (1960) as serial killer Richard Hillman in 2002 he appeared on the soap back in 1981-1982 playing a different character called Donald.
- He played six different characters, at different times, in the popular ITV drama The Bill (1984).
- He has three children: Lucy (born November 1975) and Ellen (born June 1978) with his first wife, and Louis (born June 1996) with his second wife Jacqueline Bucknell.
- He is one of three Coronation Street (1960) actors to have won the Best Actor award at the British Soap Awards; the others are Antony Cotton and Alan Halsall.
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