 He served with the Royal Artillery for six years, mostly in anti-aircraft units.After the war, he played the part of the solicitor Desmond Curry in Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy on an extensive tour of the USA (1947-8), before returning to revue in the highly successful Lyric and Globe Revues.in 1955 he joined the Old Vic Company (with Robert Helpmann and Katharine Hepburn) on a tour of Australia, playing the clown roles in Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew.