Stage debut with Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon

Toured Australia with the Old Vic

London stage acting debut, "Caro William"

Film acting debut, "The Dambusters"

Appeared in own play, "Off the Mainland," at Arts Theatre, London; his first play produced

Scripted first screenplay, "Situation Hopeless, But Not Serious"

Play "The Man in the Glass Booth" opened in London; based on his book of the same title

Wrote screenplay, "Figures in a Landscape"

Wrote play, "Cato Street"

Was about to start shooting film about spy Kim Philby at the time of his death