He has been the sports reporter for CBS Television in Los Angeles (KCBS-TV), and KNX Radio, since the early 50s.
He was an announcer for the Los Angeles Rams, and for Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, and Del Mar horse racetracks.
His wife of many years, Dee Arlen, was a actress in television during the early 1950s and 1960s.
Ironically given his later career, Gil's character, Mouse, in The Wild One mockingly mimics a race track commentator after Marlon Brando's gang disrupt the meet.