ABC Televsion · Public domain

An actor who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War before building a film career in the 1950s, including roles in Sombrero and The Wayward Bus. He found his defining part as Lieutenant Gil Hanley opposite Vic Morrow in Combat!, the ABC war drama that ran 152 episodes from 1962 to 1967 and gave a generation a lasting picture of the ordinary infantryman's war.