- Veteran "bad guy" actor of 50s film and TV who began his career after decorated WWII military service as a U.S. Navy pilot (Navy Cross). Typed into playing gunslingers, psychos and menacers, particularly after his lead role in Without Warning! (1952) set the pace.
- Father of music supervisor Madeleine Smith.
- He was born in New York City, to Ethel and Adam Louis Berg. His parents were of German descent.
- Probably best-known for his appearance in North by Northwest (1959), playing Valerian, one of the henchmen of criminal mastermind Philip Vandamm James Mason, who was Roger Thornhill Cary Grant's nemesis.
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