He won an Oscar nomination for essaying the title role in the 1954 movie "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe." Other noteworthy screen roles included Macduff opposite Orson Welles' Macbeth in 1948's "Macbeth," the playwright lover of Lana Turner in "Imitation of Life" in 1959, a general in 1964's political thriller "Fail-Safe," a talkative dinner guest in John Huston's "The Dead," and a corporate villain in "Robocop" and "Robocop 2."
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The Ivy Green Opened April 05, 1949 |
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