He portrayed the gangster Vincent Coll in the 1961 film, Mad Dog Coll. He appeared in several of Sam Peckinpah's Western films, and on television between the 1960s and 1990s in such series as The Rifleman, Route 66, The Virginian, Adam-12, Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Quincy, M.E., Columbo and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.