- His lifelong partner was Laurier Lister.
- He received a three-month jail sentence in 1943 for a homosexual offense. Many felt the sentence unjust, and it did not seem to have too adverse an effect upon his acting career.
- Died from a heart attack at his home, Smarkham Orchard, Shamley Green, near Guildford, Surrey, after returning from the television studios where he had been recording Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" for the BBC.
- Although he was 41 when he appeared in Henry V (1944), his character Louis, Dauphin of France was only 18 years old when he died on December 18, 1415.
- Performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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