American actor born in Detroit, Michigan on 4 February 1915. He started his acting career on Broadway in the early 1940s. His most notable works include Armored Car Robbery (1950), The Hitch-Hiker (1953), Smoke Signal (1955), and Perry Mason (1957-1966). He passed away on 30 August 1968 in Los Angeles, California of lung cancer, at age 53.