- His son Carey passed away in 2008. He inherited his dad's heart problems. He outlived his dad by three years, age wise. He was 50 years old at the time of his death.
- In make-up for his last film Death Cruise (1974), he ran into Ricardo Montalban, who knew him but who didn't recognize him and treated him like a stranger. Long kept up the charade until he finally confessed who he really was.
- Served in the U.S. Army for two years during the Korean War, posted to Fort Ord, California. Also posted to Special Services in Tokyo as a disc jockey and radio actor.
- David Janssen, a friend since both were under contract with Universal-International in the early 1950s, was his neighbor in 1958. Both died in their late 40s from heart attacks.
- Had cardiac problems throughout his adult life and had suffered a heart attack in 1961.
- Cousin, by marriage with Suzan Ball, of Lucille Ball.
- When his Rex Randolph character from Bourbon Street Beat was shifted to 77 Sunset Strip in 1960, it marked the first time a character from one series was moved to another already established series.
- His first two films, Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) and The Stranger (1946), starred Orson Welles. The two never again worked together.
- Father of three children with Mara Corday: Carey Long (1957-2008), Gregory (b. 1960) and Valerie Long (b. 1958).
- Brother-in-law of Marshall Thompson
- Linda Evans, his co-star in The Big Valley, visited him during his last hospitalization for his heart condition.
- Brother of Barbara Long.
- He had no, ambition to be an actor but when he was 18 he appeared in a school play in which he was the only male so when a film director saw it he was picked out for a screen test and 3 days later made his film debut.
- Drafted while appearing in the highly successful Ma and Pa Kettle film series. Newspapers noted him the first "Hollywood actor" drafted into the Korean War.
- He had no ambition to be an actor but when he was 18 he appeared in a school play as the only male in a cast of girls and was seen by a film director who invited him for a screen test and 3 days later he was part of a film cast.
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