He was an American actor, born in Illinois, USA, as Robert Winslow Alden. He was an active actor between the 1940s and the 1950s. He appeared in The Country Girl (1954), The Fountainhead (1949), and The Damned Don't Cry (1950). He died at the age of 54 on August 31, 1980, in Fallon, Nevada, USA.