John Harvey was born in London on 27 September 1911.
He began his acting career on the stage in the 1930s at the Peterborough Repertory. While there, he met his wife of over 40 years, the actress Diana King (Diana appeared in Hammer’s Fanatic (1965) and the Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense episode, Black Carrion).
John Harvey died on 19 July 1982 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, at age 70