 After moving to London in 1983 he became a familiar face on UK television., with minor roles in "Casualty", "The Bill" and "Peak Practice".His success in "Ballykissangel" came after overcoming cancer of the mouth for which he was diagnosed in 1990, and, despite suffering a stroke in 2000 which left him paralysed on the right side, he managed to play a similarly afflicted character in "Sweet Dancer" in 2005 (film unreleased).He never fully recovered from this stroke, and died, aged 58, on January 1, 2008 in Shrewsbury.