Actor
Interred in Culver City, California, at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in the "Alcove of Love", next to Moe Howard of The Three Stooges.
Earned a Masters Degree of Theater Arts from UCLA.
He played the first character on "Gunsmoke" to shoot Marshal Matt Dillon and the first character on "Hawaii Five-O" to which Steve McGarrett said, "Book em, Dan-o!".
Commercial spokesman for Pontiac Motor Divisions "Wide Track" advertising campaign from 1967 until shortly before his death.
Commercial spokesman for Michelob Beer.
Catcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1932, 3 games), New York Giants (1933-1935[start]), Philadelphia Athletics (1935[end]), Detroit Tigers (1943-1946).
Made major league debut on 17 April 1932.
Manager of the Chicago White Sox (1951-1954 & 1976) and Baltimore Orioles (1955-1961).
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 729-731. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1999.
Inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame in 1984.
