 He appeared in two seasons at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, playing Sir Toby Belch in "Twelfth Night" and Holofernes in "Love's Labour's Lost" in 1962; Dogberry in "Much Ado About Nothing" and Theseus in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1963.At the Comedy Theatre in December 1963 he played Badger in "Toad of Toad Hall", then toured Australia as Palmer Anderson in "A Severed Head".He joined the Glasgow Citizens 1966–67, where his parts included George in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"