Born April 27, 1922· Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
† Died December 24, 2012
30Roles★ 6.8Average rating
Emerging from a Philadelphia family of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II before studying drama at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where a skeptical teacher once suggested he was better suited to truck driving than acting. After an unpaid stage turn in 1949, he broke into television, made his Broadway debut in Golden Boy (1952), and appeared as juror nu…
