Actor. He is best remembered for his recurring portrayal of the headstrong Major Robert Rogers on the sitcom "Northwest Passage". After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he settled in California and began to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. After being discovered by film director George Waggner while performing in a stage production of "All This and Heaven Too" he was so impressed by his articulate voice, physique, and dark good looks, that he arranged for him to begin a career in the film industry beginning with him being under his direction in "Operation Pacific" (1951). For the next 30 years, he went on to flourish as a high-demand character actor; often typecast as husbands, fathers, doctors, lawyers, educators, retail clerks, businessman, soldiers, heroes, best friends, blue-collared guys, sheriffs, cowboys, dashing lovers, eccentrics, historical figures, playboys, wealthy bachelors, politicians, clergymen, neighbors, aristocrats, reporters, detectives, and, in his later years, patriarchs. He appeared in leading roles in such feature films as "Flat Top" (1952), "The Rose Bowl Story" (1952), "Son of Belle Starr" (1953), "Arrow in the Dust" (1954), "Dial Red O" (1954), "Night Freight" (1955), "Last of the Badmen" (1957), "Women of the Prehistoric Planet" (1966), "Night of the Witches" (1970), "Trap on Cougar Mountain" (1972), and "Whitewater Sam" (1982). On television, he became a familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse," "The Hunter," "Brave Eagle," "Lux Video Theater," "Playhouse 90," "General Electric Theater," "The Web," "The Millionaire," "Men into Space," "Wichita Town," "Tombstone Territory," "The Aquanauts," and "The Roaring 20's". During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was active within the California State Republican Committee, was a regular parishioner of the LDS church, was active in his local charter of the American Red Cross and The March of Dimes, and he was married to actresses Susan Cummings and Vera Miles (both unions ended in divorce and he fathered one child from each marriage, actor Keith Larsen, Jr. and actress Kelley Miles). Upon retiring in 1982, he spent the final years of his life devoted to family, painting, horseback riding, and was a regular attendee at autograph conventions.