Best known for his role as Staff Sergeant Zelmo Zale, the supply officer and electrician in the television series M*A*S*H who had an ongoing feud with Corporal Maxwell Klinger.
Graduated from the University of Missouri in 1942, majoring in speech and specializing in dramatic impressions.
Buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, 5950 Forest Lawn Dr., Los Angeles,
CA. On the same street is Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. Borders the city
of Glendale by Griffith Park.