...mime and all subsequent performances were cancelled. He had been suffering from [[prostate cancer]] for many years. He had several further strokes and deve ...the Year (1970), Entertainer of the Decade (1979) and the Brinsworth Award from the [[Royal Variety Charity|EABF]] for his outstanding contribution to the

From the 1960s onwards he also appeared in several [[Hammer horror]] films, incl * ''[[The People That Time Forgot (film)|The People That Time Forgot]]'' (1977) – Norfolk