Actor. He began his career in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit. He made his Broadway debut in 1919 in “Just Around the Corner.” He had a long career on Broadway, and appeared in appeared in three Pulitzer Prize winning plays – “Hell Bent for Heaven” (1924), “They Knew What They Wanted” (1924) and “Strange Interlude” (1928). He was in eight movies from 1925 to 1951, his most memorable role was Grisby the lawyer in “ The Lady from Shanghai” (1948).