Was considered for the role of Sheriff Ed Landis in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993).
Was friends with Hunter S. Thompson.
Was in two "Star Trek" series as diametrically-opposed characters: the "Star Trek" (1966) episode, "Star Trek: The Way to Eden (#3.20)" (1969), as the paradise-seeking hippie "Adam", and in the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) episode, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Little Green Men (#4.7)" (1995), as the no-nonsense "Gen. Denning" at Area 51 who interrogates the Ferengi Quark, Rom and Nog.
Was stationed in Germany for three years while in the Army.
Was the second of three children born to a tobacco farmer and a homemaker.
Worked as a substitute teacher after arriving in Los Angeles in the mid 60s.
Worked as an "on the road" correspondent for the trucker magazine "Overdrive" in the early 1970s.