 In 2013, he took the role of Mr. Boo in "Little Voice".Since the early 1970s, Brown has had a successful acting career in television and film, one of his early roles being in the Ken Loach's film "Kes" (1969), based on a novel by Barry Hines, in which he played a milkman, his sister Lynne Perrie also starred as the lead character's mother.He appeared in Jack Rosenthal's "Another Sunday and Sweet F.A."