Biography

A former stooge to Jeremy Beadle, he enjoyed an on-screen role in many of the Candid Camera-style pranks for the hit ITV series, Beadle's About (1986).

During the 1990s, he emerged as a meteoric guiding force behind the success of the London-based soap opera EastEnders (1985), in his capacity as its senior storyliner and director.

Played the character responsible for murdering Coronation Street (1960)'s Ernest Bishop (played by Stephen Hancock) during a siege at the fictional factory, Baldwin's Casuals. Later, when he became a writer he was responsible for killing off Charlie Cotton in EastEnders (1985) who was played by Stephen's brother Christopher Hancock! He later apologized to the Hancocks for this unfortunate coincidence.