He began his career in the Broadway stage performance of The Taming of the Shrew 1940 Going on to feature films he made his debut playing the role as Bette Davis son in Watch on the Rhine 1943 His other notable film credits included The Bourgeois Gentleman 1945 The Street with No Name 1948 Vendetta 1950 New Mexico 1951 Stolen Identity 1953 and Operation Eichmann 1961 He also had a successful career in television appearing in episodes of Dragnet Zane Grey Theater Lawman 77 Sunset Strip Perry Mason Ironside and The High Chaparral