One of my absolute favorites!!!
His over 100 film credits include: "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961) with Bette Davis, as Cheesecake; "4 for Texas" (1963) a Dobie; "The Rare Breed" (1966) as Deke Simmons; "The Night of the Grizzly" (1966) as Hank; "The Way West" (1967) as Preacher Weatherby; "The Last Challenge" (1967) as Ernest Scarnes; "Never a Dull Moment" (1968) as Ace Williams; "Firecreek" (1968) as Earl Norman; "Support Your Local Sheriff!" (1969) as Deputy Jake; Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time in the West" (1969) as Knuckles; "Sonora" (1969) as Slim Kovacs; "The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County" (1970) as Kittrick; "Rio Lobo" (1970) as Phillips; "The Last Rebel" (1970) as Matt Graves; "Dirty Dingus Magee" (1970) as John Wesley Hardin; "The Wild Country" (1971) as Thompson; "Support Your Local Gunfighter" (1971) as Jug May/Swifty Morgan; "Hannie Caulder" (1971) as Frank Clemens; "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973) as Alamosa Bill; "A Knife for the Ladies" (1974) as Jarrod, the Sheriff; "Hawmps!" (1976) as Bad Jack Cutter; "Pony Express Rider" (1976) as Crazy; "The Creature from Black Lake" (1976) as Joe Canton; "Grayeagle" (1978) as Trapper Willis; "The Norseman" (1978) as Death Dreamer; "Hot Lead and Cold Feet" (1978) as Rattlesnake; "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again" (1979) as Big Mack; "The Villain" (1979) with Kirk Douglas, as Avery Simpson; "The Cannonball Run" (1981) as the Doctor, Nikolas Van Helsing; "Jinxed!" (1982) as Otto; "Sacred Ground" (1983) as Lum Witcher; "Cannonball Run II" (1984) as The Doc; "The Aurora Encounter" (1986) as Charlie; "Big Bad John" (1990) as Jake; "Suburban Commando" (1991) as Col. Dustin 'Dusty' McHowell; "The Giant of Thunder Mountain" (1991) as Hezekiah Crow; "Uninvited" (1993) as Grady and "Shadow Force" (1993) as Tommy. On TV he was just as prolific appearing as a regular on "The Dakotas" (1963) as Deputy J. D. Smith; "Temple Houston" (1963-64) as George Taggart; "The Texas Wheelers" (1974-75) as Zack Wheeler; "Struck By Lightning" (1979) as Frank; "Detective in the House" (1985) as Nick Turner; "Easy Street" (1986) as "Bully" Stevenson and a recurring role on "Cheyenne" (1955-63); "Bronco" (1959-60) and "Sugarfoot" (1957-60) as "Toothy" Thompson. He also guested on numerous TV series including: "The Restless Gun"; "Frontier"; "Zorro": "Gunsmoke"; "The Untouchables"; "Mr. Lucky"; "Twilight Zone"; "Eight is Enough" and "Home Improvment." His age has always been questionable as he was said to have added four years in order to obtain work. He was married twice. He married his first wife in 1937 and they had two children: a daughter Jeri and a son Scott; she died in 1960 and he remarried again in 1961. He and second wife, Margaret Jennison had a daughter, Jacqueline. He died on October 20, 2003 of congestive heart failure at his home in Ashland, Oregon at age 86.