Killed by a bull on a family farm.Has played characters on both ends of a whip. In Hellgate (1952), he's seen as an inmate in a frontier prison who receives 17 lashes for lying to a guard. In Badlands of Montana (1957), he plays a corrupt frontier mayor who delivers 10 lashes to the back of an opponent played by Rex Reason ,He was almost cast as Marshal Dillon when "Gunsmoke" (1955) was under development for television in 1955. Charles Marquis Warren (who produced the first year of the show) said his tests were going very well until he "...floundered in a love scene with Kitty. I don't think he ever knew how close he came to immortality!"