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He became interested in Shakespeare at age 9, during a class outing to see Sir Laurence Olivier's film version of The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944).
In 1967, he was cast as Billy Minsky's father in The Night They Raided Minsky's, later he appeared opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in The Betsy (1978).