Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the staunch Martin Brand in the feature film "Real Life" (1979). Born unto a prominent family, he originally had been working in his native New York City, New York, as a lawyer until he decided to change careers and pursue a career in acting following the encouragement of his peers who acclaimed him for his effective readings during his time lecturing at courthouses and performing dramatic readings at synagogue functions. After settling in Hollywood, California, in 1938, he signed with the Jaffe Agency and began his career performing in stock companies. For the next 40 years, he would go on to flourish as a character actor, often typecast as husbands, fathers, doctors, lawyers, politicians, clergymen, aristocrats, educators, businessmen, wealthy bachelors, curmudgeons, detectives, reporters, waiters, athletes, eccentrics, landlords, managers, white-collared workers, and patriarchs. He appeared in such stage productions as "Street Scene," "The Importance of Being Ernest," "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," "The Gazebo," "My Sister Eileen," "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," "How Now Dow Jones?," "Dinner at Eight," "Camino Real," "Bells Are Ringing," "A View from the Bridge," "The White Carnation," "Pal Joey," "A Season in the Congo," "Damn Yankees," "The House of Blue Leaves," "All the Way," "One Over the Eight," "Happy Birthday, Wanda June," "The Jeweler's Shop," "All the King's Horses," "Write Me a Murder," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "A Mouthful of Earth," "The War of the Roses," "Home Free!," "Philadelphia, Here I Come!," "The Odd Couple," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Quartermaine's Terms," "The Prisoner of Second Avenue," "Secrets," "Kennedy's Children," "The Hot I Baltimore," "Long Day's Journey into Night," "A Bedful of Foreigners," "That Time," and "California Suite." During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was a regular parishioner of the Temple Israel of Hollywood, had been a supporter of the California State Democratic Committee, served as vice-president of MCA TV Limited, became a prominent producer for Revenue Productions, was a prestigious talent agent for Universal Studios, presided as a chairman for his local charters of the American Red Cross and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and he was married to actress and singer Monica Lewis from 1956 until his death (their union produced three sons). After retiring in 1983, he spent the final year of his life devoted to charitable and religious causes until his death from complications of a stroke.