A Shakespearian actor who performed across Europe and America.
Wounded in World War l, he spent eighteen months in hospital before returning to the stage. He had been performing in Berlin when the war broke out.
Taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
His wife, Winifred Durie was also a student of Sir Francis Robert Benson.
In 1905 he made his first stage appearance in Manchester as a young Bensonian Shakespearian player. In 1924 he made his American stage debut as a member of Henry Jewett's repertory troop in Boston.
In 1933 created the role of Oscar Jaffe in the play Twentieth Century. The play was later turned into a movie by Columbia pictures directed by Howard Hawks starring John Barrymore as Oscar Jaffe.