- In 2006 helped to devise a celebrity parachute jump with the British Parachute regiment's Red Devils, to raise money for the Chelsea Children's hospital school in London. The top gear television presenter Richard Hammond had agreed to take part in the jump with him but shortly before the jumps took place was severely injured in a driving accident involving a dragster.
- While growing up in South West London regularly went drinking with the Irish-US actor Patrick McGoohan.
- Given a guitar by Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood.
- He attended the funeral of the producer Hal E. Chester in 2012.
- He went to school with the British stage and film actor Joseph Fiennes and they share the same birthday.
- His mother's Godfather was matinee idol Norman Wooland.
- Christopher Lee played his great uncle Lt. Commder. Richard Dick Raikes the Captain of HMS Tuna in the classic film about Operation Frankton and the founding of the SBS the Royal Marine's Special Boat Service The Cockleshell Heroes (1955).
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