- One of Quentin Tarantino's favorite actors of all time.
- Worked as understudy for Henry Fonda in the theater version of Mister Roberts (1947).
- His career was the inspiration for the Rick Dalton character in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- He has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Naked Spur (1953), Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and Paths of Glory (1957).
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 619-620. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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