Born November 20, 1923· Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
† Died February 6, 1999
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Emerging from a Jewish family in Jersey City, he earned a journalism degree at New York University where he also founded the campus dramatic society before serving in the Army’s Special Services entertaining troops. His sharp, hawk-nosed features steered him toward Runyonesque gangster parts, and he appeared on Broadway in productions such as Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to th…
