- Had co-written an early screenplay of Coogan's Bluff (1968) with Herman Miller.
- He wrote freelance television scripts under many pseudonyms for several television shows, such as, Ben Casey (1961), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), The Fugitive (1963), The Wild Wild West (1965), and Police Surgeon (1971), among others.
- He was considered by producer Robert H. Justman to hire as a staff writer and producer for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
- He had written scripts that were never produced for television shows such as The Veil (1958), Whiz Kids (1983), A Man Called Shenandoah (1965), and Have Gun - Will Travel (1957).
- Was known to give career breaks to either new or already established talent, such as Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell, John Badham, Steven Spielberg, Jeannot Szwarc, Gil Mellé, Herbert Wright, Jerrold Freedman, Jeff Corey, Gene R. Kearney, Laurie Prange, Clint Howard, Leonard Nimoy, Werner Klemperer, Diane Keaton, and Lindsay Wagner, among others.
- He had uncredited roles in movies, such as The Circus Clown (1934), Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949), Sword in the Desert (1949), Francis (1950), Call Me Mister (1951), and Journey Into Light (1951).
- His television appearances includes shows, such as Rebound (1952), The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), Fireside Theatre (1949), Ben Casey (1961), Ironside (1967), and Night Gallery (1969).
- He studied play-writing under John Gassner.
- Was originally cast in the role of Jackson Jones in Jackson and Jill (1949).
- In his book "Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed", writer Harlan Ellison referred to Laird as a thug.
- During World War II, Laird had served in the Ninth Air Force, and with the First Allied Airborne.
- While a student at Pasadena Junior College, he had formed his own dance band, "Aris Laird and his ARIStocrats of Swing", the group was made up of players who would later joined the likes of Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Les Brown.
- At the time of his death, Laird was reportedly working on a television series based on stories by writer Robert Ludlum.
- According to John Meredyth Lucas, Laird had moonlighted on scripts during his tenure as producer on Ben Casey (1961).
- From 1946 to 1949, Laird had studied at the dramatic workshop at the New York School for Social Research under Erwin Piscator.
- Often wrote television scripts with writer/producer Wilton Schiller.
- According to the 1984 edition of Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Laird had worked as a writer on Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), and as a producer on Crime Club (1975).
- Was once engaged to actress Joanna Lee.
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