Ex-stepfather of actress Amanda Plummer.
In July 2004, he appeared as a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with Stella Stevens, Andrew Prine, Heather Lowe, Lane Bradbury, and Sonny Shroyer.
Served in the Navy during WWII, and took part in the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6, 1944.
Was Joan Benedict's partner, from after the death in 2002 of her husband, Rod Steiger, to his own death in 2006.