Stage: Appeared in Campbell Christie's play, "Carrington V.C.," at the Playhouse Theatre in Hulme, Manchester, England, with Robert Eddison, Peter Barker and Joy Wood in the cast.
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).