- 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.
- Father of actresses Lou Gish and Kay Curram.
- Graduate of Bognor Regis Repertory Theatre, his acting peers there included Rosemary Harris and Michael Hawkins.
- His aunt Gertrude Dickin appeared in his pal John Schlesinger's documentary with dramatic inserts Terminus (1961).
- His ex-wife died in March of 2005 of facial cancer, in which she lost an eye. Actress/daughter Lou Gish also died of cancer in February of 2006.
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