- Wrote foreword for "Henry Fonda and The Deputy: The Film and Stage Star and His TV Western" by Glen Mosley. (2010)
- Played for the University of Kentucky men's basketball team when they were NCAA national champions in 1951.
- All his life he was regular parishioner of the Episcopal church.
- Following his death, he was cremated, and his ashes were returned unto his surviving family.
- The first actor to wear a Rick Baker creation in a professional feature film (Octaman, 1970).
- He was a lifelong Republican.
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