- On 4/10/44, after finishing a round of 18 holes on the golf course, he went into the locker room to change but never came out. He was found slumped over a couch from a massive heart attack.
- Has the distinction of being the first man to play Captain America on the screen.
- Regarded as the unofficial king of Warner Brothers B-movies.
- He was on the hockey team at Fordham University.
- Rugged, durable "B" player for Warner Brothers in the 1930s and early '40s who played strong-arm, he-man types, both heroes and villains.
- Became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in late 1935.
- Profiled in "Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960" by Laurence Raw (2012).
- Buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
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