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Built a stage and screen career interrupted for nearly two decades after he and his wife were blacklisted from Hollywood in 1948 and later refused, on Fifth Amendment grounds, to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee's questions about Communist Party membership. Director John Frankenheimer broke the blacklist to cast him in Seconds (1966), after which he built a long career of sturdy supporting roles in films including Serpico and Prizzi's Honor, and won a Tony Award in 1987 for Broadway Bound.