Was nominated for Broadway's 1957 Tony Award as author of Best Play
nominee "Separate Tables."
His play The Deep Blue Sea is based on the suicide of his former lover Kenneth Morgan.
His play, "Flare Path," at the Griffin Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2013 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Play Production.
He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours List and made a Knight Bachelor in the 1971 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the theatre.