His tragic death, from falling through a glass shower door and bleeding out, resulted in California's enacting a state law requiring all glass shower doors to be made with safety glass, so his accident could not be repeated.
Karen Burroughs Hansberry published a short biography of McGraw in her book 'Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir'.
Awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6927 Hollywood Blvd. on 2/8/60.
In September 1955 he surfaced in the Humphrey Bogart role as Rick in the television version of Casablanca (1955) for ABC. It lasted only one season. However, for some reason, Rick's last name here was Jason. NBC revived the series again in (Casablanca (1983)), this time with David Soul of Starsky and Hutch (1975) fame and with the lead character's name reverting to that of the original film--Rick Blaine.