Actor. Best known as the "Jack Benny of the Bit Players", he was a notable supporting actor who appeared in over 200 features in a 35-year career. After working as a professional football player, he was discovered by director Lewis Milestone while dining in a restaurant during a trip to Ohio. Impressed by his slim appearance, blonde good looks, and charm, he took notice of his potential and arranged for him to begin a career in the film industry beginning with him being under his supervision in "The Front Page" (1931). From there, he would go on to succeed as a familiar faced character actor; often typecast as husbands, fathers, boyfriends, butlers, chauffeurs, retail clerks, waiters, salesmen, doctors, soda jerks, soldiers, engineers, doormen, bellhops, bad guys, sidekicks, guards, cowboys, gamblers, eccentrics, landlords, neighbors, curmudgeons, reporters, detectives, city slickers, bartenders, and policemen. He appeared in such feature films as "The Crowd Roars" (1932), "Bureau of Missing Persons" (1933), "Dinky" (1935), "Road Gang" (1936), "Varsity Show" (1937), "Over the Wall" (1938), "The Old Maid" (1939), "Flight Angels" (1940), "Footsteps in the Dark" (1941), "Juke Girl" (1942), "Air Force" (1943), "Mr. Skeffington" (1944), "The Thin Man Goes Home" (1945), "Angel on My Shoulder" (1946), "My Wild Irish Rose" (1947), "Adventures of Don Juan" (1948), "Johnny Allegro" (1949), "Double Deal" (1950), "His Kind of Woman" (1951), "Carson City" (1952), "Siren of Sinbad" (1953), "His Majesty O'Keefe" (1954), "Battle Cry" (1955), "The Killing" (1956), "Jailhouse Rock" (1957), "Bullwhip" (1958), "Warlock" (1959), "Ice Palace" (1960), "A Fever in the Blood" (1961), "Black Gold" (1962), "4 for Texas" (1963), and "The Silencers" (1966). On television, he appeared in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Your Favorite Story," "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger," "Adventures of Superman," "Waterfront," "Climax!," "The Red Skelton Hour," "Soldiers of Fortune," "The Californians," "Lawman," "The Adventures of Jim Bowie," "77 Sunset Strip," "Maverick," "Yancy Derringer," "Cheyenne," "Startime," "Riverboat," "Markham," "Bronco," "Peter Gunn," "Bourbon Street Beat," "The Brothers Brannigan," "Surfside 6," "Cain's Hundred," "The Untouchables," "Burke's Law," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "Rawhide," "The Lucy Show," "Branded," "Perry Mason," "The Munsters," and "Daniel Boone". During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, was a regular parishioner of the Temple Israel of Hollywood, had been a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, presided as a chairman for his local charters of the American Red Cross and the Boys & Girls Clubs, and he was married to actress Virginia Haralson from 1944 until his death (their union produced no children). Following his final appearance in "Red Tomahawk" (1967), he died from complications of a heart attack.