McEnery appeared in
Victim, a 1961 British
neo-noir suspense film directed by
Basil Dearden in which McEnery plays Barrett, a young working-class gay man who falls prey to blackmailers after he and the titular character are photographed in an intimate embrace. McEnery also starred alongside
Hayley Mills in the 1964 film
The Moon-Spinners. In 1966, he took the lead in the
Disney adventure film
The Fighting Prince of Donegal. He had the lead role in the expensive 1970 adventure film
The Adventures of Gerard, which flopped. He played
Edwin Clayhanger in the television dramatisation of the novels by
Arnold Bennett with support from
Janet Suzman,
Harry Andrews and
Clive Swift. He played Mr Sloane in
Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970). As an actor for the
Royal Shakespeare Company, he played the title role in Ron Daniel's 1979 production of
Pericles, Prince of Tyre at
The Other Place, and played several roles in the 1982 epic production of
Nicholas Nickleby for the same company. In 1981, he played
Oberon in the
BBC Television Shakespeare production of ''
A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Another stage role is that of the surgeon Treves in the National Theatre's 1980 production of
The Elephant Man. ==Personal life==