Trivia

During World War 2, he was a regular radio announcer for the Armed Forces Network, introducing broadcasts of live musical performances for such artists as Glenn Miller's Air Force Band.

Appeared on Broadway for the second (and last) time in 1937 as Lennie in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," which had established him as an actor. One of his co-stars was Will Geer.

Good friends with Lon Chaney Jr..

Hosted Saturday Night Live on March 19, 1977.

When he hosted SNL in 1977, he pointed out a building in New York where he claimed he had been born.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 210-211. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Interred at Ferndale Cemetery. Johnstown, Fulton County, New York. Plot Section B.