Best known for playing Julie Christie's gay traveling companion in her
Oscar-winning movie Darling (1965), Roland went on to play one of the greatest
homosexual characters in British soap, the expatriate Freddie in the
BBC's shortlived series Eldorado (1992).
Long married to British actress Sheila Gish, they eventually split up in
the 1980s. She later married actor/director Denis Lawson and Roland came out
of the closet. He subsequently met his longtime companion and they
settled in Chiswick.