A good friend of actor Boris Karloff, even after Karloff married his ex-wife, Evelyn, in 1946.
He is probably most famous today as the man who hires James Stewart to shadow Kim Novak, in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).
He was Rex Harrison's understudy in the original stage production of "My Fair Lady."
Starred as "The Shadow" in a prospective TV pilot in the 1950s that didn't pan out.