Career
He also appeared in numerous television series during the 1960s-1980s, including Gunsmoke, Mannix, Hogan"s Heroes, Hawaii Five-O and Hill Street Blues. A native of Italy, he was raised in Cleveland, and earned a theater arts degree at Carnegie Technical (now Carnegie Mellon). He made his Broadway debut in 1954 in The Girl on the Via Flaminia.
He died of lung cancer, in Los Angeles, at age 78.