Born in Richmond, Virginia, he left a brief liberal-arts stint at Northwestern to study acting with Stella Adler in New York, after which he debuted on Broadway in William Inge’s A Loss of Roses and entered film as a teenager in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass. Early screen work included John Frankenheimer’s All Fall Down and the revisionist western McCabe & Mrs. Miller, establishing him as a v…
