Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayals of handsomely rugged heroes in several Western and Dramatic features of the 1920s through 1940s. After attending Ohio Wesleyan University to earn a ministry degree, he participated in the campus drama club and after great encouragement from his peers, he began to participate in dramatic readings at his church as well as partaking in local theatre where he was discovered by film director Finis Fox. After making his film debut in "A Woman Who Sinned" (1924), he would go on to appear in over 250 features between the 1920s and 1960s. He appeared in such films as "Easy Money" (1925), "Before Midnight" (1925), "Somebody's Mother" (1926), "The Last Alarm" (1926), "Note for Publication" (1927), "Stolen Love" (1928), "The Law of the Range" (1928), "When Dreams Come True" (1929), "Troopers Three" (1930), "The Utah Kid" (1930), "In Old Cheyenne" (1931), "Midnight Morals" (1932), "Inside Information" (1934), "Pals of the Range" (1935), "Fast Bullets" (1936), "The Silver Trail" (1936), "Heroes of the Alamo" (1937), "Swing It, Sailor!" (1938), "Desert Patrol" (1938), "Calling All Marines" (1939), "South of the Border" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "Under Texas Skies" (1940), "The Phantom Cowboy" (1941), "Arizona Terrors" (1942), "Saboteur" (1942), "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942), "Calling Dr. Death' (1943), "Bordertown Trail" (1944), "Lone Texas Ranger" (1945), "You Came Along" (1945), "Canyon Passage" (1946), "The Crimson Ghost" (1946), "Angel and the Badman" (1947), "The Perils of Pauline" (1947), "Brute Force" (1947), "Another Part of the Forest" (1948), "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948), "Rose of the Yukon" (1949), "Ma and Pa Kettle" (1949), "Code of the Silver Sage' (1950), "Hills of Oklahoma" (1950), "Spoilers of the Plains" (1951), "Lone Star" (1952), "Colorado Sundown" (1952), "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (1953), "The Man Behind the Gun" (1953), "Gun Belt" (1953), "Destry" (1954), "The Prodigal" (1955), "Back from Eternity" (1956), "Bundle of Joy" (1956), "A Hatful of Rain" (1957), and "The Gazebo" (1959). With the advent of television, he became a household name appearing on various guest spots for several sitcoms, often playing doctors, lawyers, politicians, educators, bounty hunters, clergyman, and patriarchs, in such programs as "The Living Christ," "The Long Ranger," "The Cisco Kid," "I'm The Law," "The Roy Rogers Show," "The Whistler," "Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal," "The Adventures of Champion," "Tales of the Texas Rangers," "Fury," "The Chevron Hall of Stars," "Jefferson Drum," "The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "Maverick," "26 Men," and "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp." During the early years of his career, he was married to actresses Charlotte Merriam and Eleanor Hunt; both unions ended in divorce. In 1960, he officially retired from acting and spent the remainder of his life active in the Methodist church, served as a board member for the California State Democratic Committee, and was a successfully avid player of the stock market.