Spent a large part of his career on the stage, not only as actor, but as set designer, producer and director. He won two New York Drama Critics Awards for acting.
Character heavy primarily from Broadway who won two New York Drama
Critics awards and produced and directed several plays on the summer
theater circuit.
Played tough, blue-collar types, often cops, bartenders or thugs. His best-remembered film role is probably that of "Big Mac"
in the classic On the Waterfront (1954).
Wife Fay Tracey was an actress.
He is buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.