Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the sly Carmine Ricca in "Magnum Force" (1973). Born Richard Ferraiole, he was one of four children born into a traditonal working-class family. While working as a doorman for the Hollywood Palladium, he was befriended by actor James Craig. Impressed by his dark good looks, slim physique, and professionalism, he arranged for him to begin a career in the film industry beginning with him appearing in a leading role in "Scorching Fury" (1952). From there, he would go on to appear in over 105 features as a notable character actor; often typecast as husbands, fathers, cowboys, sheriffs, policemen, clergymen, working-class citizens, doctors, educators, landlords, neighbors, gangsters, detectives, retail clerks, salesmen, bartenders, curmudgeons, city slickers, eccentrics, con-artists, politicians, and patriarchs. He appeared in such feature films as "The Prodigal" (1955), "3:10 to Yuma" (1957), "Badman's Country" (1958), "Battle of Blood Island" (1959), "The Comancheros" (1961), "Kid Galahad" (1962), "Cattle King" (1963), "The Silencers" (1966), "Three Guns for Texas" (1968), "Planet of the Apes" (1974), and "The Seventh Sign" (1988). During the advent of television, he became an even more familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Frontier," "Space Patrol," "Noah's Ark," "I Led 3 Lives," "Dragnet," "The Ford Television Theatre," "Navy Log," "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon," "Broken Arrow," "State Troopers," "Peter Gunn," "Zorro," "The Loretta Young Show," "Yancy Derringer," "Trackdown," "Wanted: Dead or Alive," "Mr. Lucky," "Riverboat," "Richard Diamond, Private Detective," "Hotel de Paree," "The Rebel," "Law of the Plainsman," "Overland Trail," "Whispering Smith," "Death Valley Days," "The Twilight Zone," "77 Sunset Strip," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "The Rifleman," "Laramie," "Saints and Sinners," "Gunsmoke," "Destry," "Wagon Train," "A Man Called Shenandoah," "Perry Mason," "Laredo," "The High Chaparral," "Iron Horse," "Bonanza," "The Big Valley," "Get Smart," "Daniel Boone," "Mannix," "Mission: Impossible," and "Matt Houston". During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been an active parishioner of the Catholic church, was a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, had been active as a chairman for his local charters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, was a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, was one of the founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, and he was married to business executive Patricia Riopelle from 1959 until his death (their union produced no children). Upon his 1991 retirement, he spent the final years of his life being a regular attendee at autograph conventions, and was a generous benefactor for several libraries and hospitals, until his death from the complications of vascular disease.