Trivia

Briefly joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War but was honourably discharged when his father died.

Has played Kirstie Alley's father twice, first in a guest appearance on Cheers (1982), and later on the series Veronica's Closet (1997).

Received a degree in Economics from Temple University. Later worked as a bookkeeper with the Federal Reserve Bank while taking acting classes at the American Theatre Wing in New York.

Got into acting via a a scholarship to New York's American Theatre Wing through a TV talent contest.

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1984, as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," and in 1988 as Best Actor (Play) for "A Walk In the Woods."

Appeared on Broadway in "A View From the Bridge, " "Glengarry, Glen Ross" (Tony nomination for Featured Actor) and "A Walk In the Woods" (Tony nomination for Best Actor).

His stage work included portraying Juror #3 in the Washington D.C. production of "Twelve Angry Men". His cast-mates included Roy Scheider as Juror #8, and Rene Auberjonois as Juror #5.

Grandfather of Joseph Kai Prosky.

He was nominated for a 1984 Joseph Jefferson Award For Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Glengarry Glen Ross" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Member of Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage repertory company in 60's and 70s, where he worked with Jane Alexander James Earl Jones Robert Foxworth and others.

He didn't began acting professionally until he was forty years old.

He didn't make his first credited film appearance until he was fifty years old.