He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. His first television appearance was in 1954 in an episode of Goodyear Television Playhouse. He later appeared in over eighty different television shows, among them The Donna Reed Show, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, The Andy Griffith Show, Here's Lucy, No Soap, Radio, Centennial and Amen. He also appeared in the movies Li'l Abner (1959), The Honeymoon Machine (1961), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Hotel (1967), From Noon till Three (1976), On Golden Pond (1981) and Cold Steel (1987).
