- Father of actress Juliette Lewis.
- Excellent and well-known character actor, is probably best known for his half-dozen guest star appearances in Clint Eastwood films, including Bronco Billy (1980), High Plains Drifter (1973), Every Which Way But Loose (1978), etc.
- Co-founder of spoken-word performance group, Celestial Navigations, along with musician Geoff Levin.
- He played characters in two different films about President Theodore Roosevelt; The Wind and the Lion (1975) and the made-for-television Rough Riders (1997).
- He was a firearms enthusiast who reloaded his own ammunition and owned a custom-built Terry Tussey 1911 .45.
- Won Best Actor at the 2006 California Independent Film Festival Slate Awards for his role in Old Man Music.
- Studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse NYC.
- Attended the Celebritymeetandgreet.com in Buena Park, California, on 1/13/07 to help benefit the Breast Cancer Fund.
- Starring in Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, June 5th-22nd 2008. (June 2008)
- Father-in-law of Ethan Suplee.
- Was guest at Lone Pine Film Festival, Lone Pine CA. October 2008.
- Ex-father-in-law of Stephen Berra.
- He and Roy Scheider both played a character named Frank Murphy.
- He and his wife Glennis divorced when their daughter Juliette was 2.
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