- Played 14 different characters on Gunsmoke (1955) ( Hank / Bud Gurney / Lone Eagle / Cody Durham / Ash Farior / Ford Macklin / Joe Sims / Bull Foot / Gulley / Townsend / Talley / Pappy Quinn / Elton Sutterfield / Lon Toomes)
- Caruso was the last President of the exclusive show business club, the "Masquers' Club" that started in 1928, prior to its demise.
- The character Tony Caruso, who appeared in the Perry Mason TV movie Perry Mason - Les dames de coeur (1993), was named after him.
- Met his future wife, Tonia at the Alcazar Theater in 1939 in San Francisco, when the play she was in was closing, and the play he was in was opening.
- Was often used for voice-overs and commercials.
- Trained at the Pasadena Playhouse where he befriended actor Alan Ladd, who got him work in 12 of his films.
- Father of son, Tonio, and daughter, Tina.
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