- He died only five days before his UFO (1970) co-star Ed Bishop.
- Perennial James Bond candidate from the seventies into the early eighties - screentested several times according to his website.
- Taught at Lee Strasberg's acting school in London during the 1990s.
- Not only had he screen-tested for the part of James Bond (to replace Sean Connery), but he resembles Connery's first replacement, George Lazenby, and he played the Russian version of James Bond (lover of Barbara Bach) in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
- Acted in cabaret for one year as straight man to Danny La Rue.
- Not to be confused with British journalist Michael Billington.
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