Anecdotes

Appears as surplus Jenny airplane dealer in L'odyssée de Charles Lindbergh (1957). In real life, as a young man, he learned to fly airplanes from the Wright Brothers.

Two of his very last roles were in classic 1950s sci-fi films: as the resident in the hospital alcoholic ward who sings "Make me sergeant in charge of the booze!" in Des monstres attaquent la ville (1954), then as the rancher who is the first victim of Danger planétaire (1958).

He and Irving Bacon are the only actors to appear in the first two versions of "A Star Is Born": Une étoile est née (1937) and Une étoile est née (1954).

He played the same role (Mr. Davis, Amy March's schoolteacher) in two versions of "Little Women": Les Quatre Filles du docteur March (1933) and Les quatre filles du Dr March (1949).

Brother of Jobyna Howland.