Graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Was a civil libertarian who was raised a Quaker who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
Published short stories in the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, American, and This Week.
A heart murmur kept him out of the US military during World War II. He enlisted in the British Eighth Army unit, driving an ambulance in North Africa assigned by the American Friends Service Committee.