![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: March 13, 1908 in New York, NY Death: February 17, 1986 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:He began acting in plays in his early teens, and was already a veteran by the time he joined "Orson Welles"'s Mercury Theater in 1938; among his Mercury credits was a role in the infamous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. Like many Mercury performers, he followed Welles to Hollywood and debuted onscreen in "Citizen Kane" (1941). In a sporadically busy film career, he went on to play many character roles over the next four decades; he was often cast as insensitive, no-nonsense types, and sometimes played gangsters. He began a second career in the mid '50s as a TV director. ~ All Movie Guide
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