He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Henry VIII," at the Old Vic Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Charles Laughton, Flora Robson, Nicholas Hannen, Ursula Jeans, Roger Livesey, James Mason, Athene Seyler, Elsa Lanchester, Marius Goring, and Leon Quartermaine in the cast. Tyrone Guthrie was director.