- Made British television history as the first black person to appear regularly on a British television series, singing topical calypsos.
- Sang the original version of the worldwide hit "Feeling Good" (later made even more famous by Michael Buble) in the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricusse stage play The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd, opening at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, UK, August 3, 1964.
- In 1974 founded Drum as Britain's first arts centre to showcasing black actors.
- Guyanese-British singer and guitarist.
- He served in the RAF during WWII, and qualified as a barrister, before becoming interested in acting.
- He was the great-grandson of a slave, one of seven children born to a Moravian minister and a music teacher.
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