- Severely and needlessly damaged his career around 1978 during the hysteria of the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler serial murders. His wife had recently left him, and he was in a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. He inexplicably chose to seek psychological help by falsely confessing to be the Hillside Strangler. His "confession" made headlines and was even carried in the National Enquirer tabloid. Two cousins, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., were later arrested and convicted of the murders.
- Ned owned a hairpiece that he would wear when the occasion demanded it. Usually he would find an opportunity to whip it off with a bow - and to many cheers from the audience - as he did when playing Pharaoh in "Mendel and Moses" (producers: Wendy & Jeremiah Ginsberg) in 1997.
- Ned had a brother, Jay S. York, a stunt man who wrestled under the name "The Alaskan".
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