Biografía

Shortly before his death, when asked by film critic Roger Ebert what he was most proud of in regard to his acting career, he replied that it was the fact that in over 60 movies he never says one cuss word.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on August 17, 1992.

He was 43 years old when he received his first acting credit.

Was a stunt man for 30 years before becoming an actor.

Doubled for Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Montgomery Clift, Steve McQueen and Roy Rogers.

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball--and [David Lynch] wasn't anything like that.

No, I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch until the week before I started the film.

I worked with Cecil B. DeMille quite a few times.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh--I worked for some real good directors.