- He is an enthusiastic motorcyclist who met his wife, Christine Baranski, when he offered her a ride home one night, on the back of his bike after a party.
- Father, with Christine Baranski, of daughters Lily Cowles (born in 1987) and Isabel Cowles (born in 1984).
- He and his wife, Christine Baranski, raised their children without TV because they objected to violence and sexual content of programs.
- Lived with his wife and their daughters in Connecticut.
- He was nominated for a 1976 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Dirty Jokes," at the Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- Although he played a wide range of characters, Cowles will probably best be remembered as the highly entertaining "uber-pimp" Billy Clyde Tuggle on ABC's All My Children (1970).
- According to a New York Times profile of his wife, Christine Baranski, he is "the black sheep member of a family with ties" to Drexel banking and the Cowles Publishing Company.
- Son of Chandler Cowles and Katherine Drexel Henry.
- Buried at Carmel Hill Cemetery. Bethlehem, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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