I knew him from The Desperadoes with Jack Palance and Land Raiders (below) with Telly Savalas. Good actor. Remarkable age.
He was a face most people knew. Had some decent 60s credits and after that seemed to do 20 odd years of TV appearances in almost everything from Police Story, Ellery Queen and even Fantasy Island.
I just finished watching R66’s “Ten Drops of Water” from 1960 and at the beginning Buz/GM says, “You know, when I was a kid I knew an old guy, lived to be 94…his hands were all wrinkled with rheumatism…I used to think he was the oldest thing in the world.” Great, moving episode with tremendous heart and the irony in that line just set me up for what came the rest of the way. And now I’m a bit of a wreck.
