Diminutive Londoner often seen in cockney and/or Jewish 'cloth cap'
roles, he lurked under a cloak of anonymity until his co-starring part
as one of The Lavender
Hill Mob (1951) brought his name to the public's attention. Later he tackled
weightier roles, although almost always in the same vein as that in
which he had started. Less often seen in films after 1958, following
his creation of the malingering soldier 'Bootsie' who appeared in two
long-running TV series, The Army Game and Bootsie and Snudge.
