He joined Granada from the BBC as the senior outside broadcast cameraman in 1956, six months before the station went on the air in 1957, and first worked on the Street as the senior cameraman in the programme's second week in 1960, becoming a television director in 1967. His other credits include producing and directing episodes of Yanks Go Home as well as work on series such as Cinema, The Life of Riley, Leave It to Charlie, Chintz and Crown Court.