The esteemed individual in question was born to parents Sarah and Aaron Lazarus, who made the significant decision to relocate from Poland to England, where they settled and raised a family of five children, consisting of three brothers, Albert, Samuel, and the subject himself, as well as one sister, Anne.
As he grew older, he would go on to marry and start a family of his own, with a loving daughter named Elizabeth, who would eventually bear him two precious grandchildren, James and Laura.
Before embarking on his illustrious acting career, the individual in question, along with his brother Mick, had the distinction of serving in the Canadian Mounted Police from 1927 to 1930. Upon their return to London, he began to pursue his passion for acting, while his brother Mick would go on to make a name for himself as an extra in films.