 From that time onwards, he was a regular on British television, and in the same year played the leading role in a BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's "The Way We Live Now".Among the many stage plays in which he appeared were "The Recruiting Officer", "Saint Joan", "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", "Filumena Marturano", "Volpone" and "Oedipus".He returned to the Royal Shakespeare in 1972 in Harold Pinter's "Old Times" and was subsequently in many West End plays.