Anecdotes

Despite the assertion by some sources that he was related to actor Robert Pine, he was not.

Dark-browed, shady-looking character actor known for playing serious-minded professionals and assorted menacers and mobsters, mostly on TV during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Worked on Ohio and Mississippi showboats during the early 1940s.

Became interested in acting while in high school.

In both his appearances on the classic science-fiction anthology series La quatrième dimension (1959) and Au-delà du réel (1963), he played men whose identities were usurped by characters with the ability to change their faces.