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Created the role of Amos Hart in the Broadway Musical Chicago. Lived in Rhinebeck, New York. Was a New York City policeman for 20 years before going into acting. Discovered for films by Mel Brooks, who cast him in The Producers. Once served as a stand-in for the equally hefty Jackie Gleason. Appeared in many musicals including South Pacific, The Fantasticks, How Now Dow Jones, and his best known part, in Chicago where he introduced the "Mister Cellophane" number. * Wrote for the Name That Tune game show and for The Steve Allen Plymouth Show in the 1950s. Got into the comic angle of show business as a cop while adding jokes to various speeches he made for deputy commissioners. Served as a navigator in the US Air Force during World War II. The father of a son and a daughter. His daughter died of cancer in 2002. Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch)