Graduated from the drama department at Carnegie Tech.
He repeated his 1939 stage role of Oscar Hubbard in the original Broadway production of "The Little Foxes" when the 1941 film was made.
Stern, mustachioed American character actor who mostly played well-dressed heavies in the 40s and 50s.
Trained at the Cleveland Playhouse in the 1920s and appeared in shortened versions of Shakespearean productions at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.