- Spent a large part of his career on the stage, not only as actor, but as set designer, producer and director. He won two New York Drama Critics Awards for acting.
- Disney film fans will remember him as the dumbstruck police officer and unwitting witness to the incredulous going-ons in several of their most popular comedy slapstick: The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and Son of Flubber (1962).
- Character heavy primarily from Broadway who won two New York Drama Critics awards and produced and directed several plays on the summer theater circuit.
- Played tough, blue-collar types, often cops, bartenders or thugs. His best-remembered film role is probably that of "Big Mac" in the classic On the Waterfront (1954).
- Wife Fay Tracey was an actress.
- He is buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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