Anecdotes

During World War II he joined the US Army Air Corps and was a navigator and bombardier, flying many bombing missions over Germany.

Was a child prodigy who sang on radio and gave violin and piano recitals while still in his early teens.

His body was donated to University of California in Los Angeles for medical science.

Remembered as being the man who gives Robert Horton 20 lashes with a bullwhip in the TV series episode The Traitor (1961), broadcast 13 December 1961.

Studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya.

Godson of noted horticulturist Luther Burbank.

Was the son of a prominent California proctologist.

Replaced Douglas Fowley as Doc Holliday in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) for several episodes in 1958 and 1959. Fowley had begun shooting a film in West Germany in the off-season of the series but filming there went on longer than expected.