- He appeared in four films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: 12 Angry Men (1957), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Patton (1970) and The Verdict (1982). Of those, only Patton (1970) is a winner in the category.
- Served in the U.S. Merchant Marine in WW II as a wireless officer.
- Studied acting at the Cleveland Playhouse.
- He appeared in four films directed by Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men (1957), Fail Safe (1964), Lovin' Molly (1974) and The Verdict (1982).
- Both he and Malachi Throne played Alexander Mundy's government boss on It Takes a Thief (1968), and both actors debuted on the same episode of Brenner (1959).
- Made his Broadway stage debut in 1949 in the play "Command Decision".
- Although he played Anthony Perkins' father in Lovin' Molly (1974), he was only sixteen years his senior in real life.
- He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: 12 Angry Men (1957), North by Northwest (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Patton (1970).
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