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This boyish-looking New York-born actor of film and . He succumbed to cancer less than a decade later in 1991 at the age of 63.
He was handed a film career out of nowhere by James Cagney , who took a liking to the baby-faced kid and gave him co-starring roles in a couple of his rugged features, with little prior experience.
His last performance was as Willie Loman in Death of A Salesman at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, just a few months before his death in 1991.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946 - 48.
