Joss Ackland Highlights

1962: Debut as theater director, "The Plough and the Stars", Mermaid Theater, London
1962: Served as associate director, Mermaid Theatre, London
1957: Returned to UK
1954: Moved with family to Central Africa where he worked as a tea planter, then returned to stage there and also worked as disc-jockey and scriptwriter
1950: Film debut, "Seven Days to Noon" (uncredited)
1946: London stage debut, "The Hasty Heart"
Worked in a brewery, then on a dairy farm before studying acting