Best remembered as the title character in The Lodger (1944).
His funeral eulogy was delivered by Vincent Price.
His rapid loss of weight to 200 pounds (88 kg) from 300 (132 kg) was more than his system could endure.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Eventide section, lot #37.
Mammoth-sized US character actor, often in sinister or sulking roles -- sometimes of men twice his real age. He died young, of complications from a crash campaign to lose weight. (See also Marie Prevost.).