- His rapid loss of weight to 200 pounds (88 kg) from 300 (132 kg) was more than his system could endure.
- His funeral eulogy was delivered by Vincent Price.
- Was an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theater in 1937.
- Best remembered as the title character in The Lodger (1944).
- He appeared in 3 movies with Gene Tierney: Hudson's Bay (1940), Rings on Her Fingers (1942) and Heaven Can Wait (1943).
- Mammoth-sized US character actor, often in sinister or sulking roles -- sometimes of men twice his real age. He died young, of complications from a crash campaign to lose weight.
- He appeared in 3 movies with George Sanders: The Black Swan (1942), The Lodger (1944) and Hangover Square (1945).
- Played featured roles in six important films during the first year of his Fox contract.
- Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Eventide section, lot #37.
- Attended fashionable Episcople Academy just outside Philadelphia, where he became active in dramatics.
- Attended Winchester Academy, a noted boys' school in Longport, New Jersey.
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