- He was a late-night fixture at Sardi's, P.J. Clarke, and The Players Club in the Broadway area.
- He performed with Orson Welles in the Mercury Theatre on the Air Radio Program and played a reporter asking Welles' Charles Foster Kane questions in Welles' Citizen Kane.
- He portrayed Chef Boardee in the products television commercials and his features were used for the image of the chef in print advertising.
- He was cast as Adolph Hitler in a 1943 radio broadcast as part of the series "This Is Our Enemy." He rehearsed strenuously to match Hitler's ranting voice and finally was doing it perfectly in rehearsals. But by the time of the broadcast, he had lost his voice and someone else played the part.
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