He was innate Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland inside North Kensington, London, and trained at a Central School of Speech and Drama. He has appeared extensively in television, notably as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands (1985). He has typically played South African characters, inside films prefer Lethal Weapon Two (1989) and White Mischief (1987).

Ackland appears in the Pet Shop Boys' 1987 film It Could Never Happen On text, & in the streaming videos for their cover of the song Always On My Mind, which was taken from a film. Many years late, he claimed around an locate by having a Radio Times that he appeared with the band strictly when a effect of losing a bet.

Filmography

Seven Days to Noon (1950) as station policeman Ghost Ship (1952) as Ron, 2nd Fisherman Rasputin: the Mad Monk (1966) as A Bishop Crescendo (1970) as Carter Mr Forbush and the Penguins (1971) as A Leader The House That Dripped Blood (1971)as Neville Rogers Villain (1971) as Edgar Lewis England Made Me (1972) as Haller The Happiness Cage (1972) as Dr. Frederick Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) as Gen. Burgdorf Penny Gold (1973) The Three Musketeers (1973) as 500'Artagnan's Father The Black Windmill (1974) as Chief Supt. Wray S.P.Y.S (1974) Great Expectations (1974) as Joe Gargery Royal Flash (1975) as Sapten One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) as B.J. Spence The Little Prince (1975) as A King Operation Daybreak (1977) as Janák Silver Bears (1977) as Henry Foreman Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) as Cantrell Saint Jack (1979) as Yardley Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979)