Howard Pays was an English actor who gave up acting for representing thespians and other professionals in television and motion pictures, becoming one of England's most successful talent agents in the process. After being demobilized from the military after serving his National Service commitment, Pays became an actor. He made his television debut in the popular series Sixpenny Corner (1955) in 1955 where he met, and married, his co-star, Jan Miller.In the early 1960s, Pays quit acting and opened the talent agency "CCA" in London. He and his partner, Freddie Vale, turned the agency into one of the most important in the U.K. and the English-speaking world. He was still a top agent at the time of his death, from cancer, in April 2002. He was 74 years old.