Album: He was the narrator in the first English-language recording of Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf". This was a three-disc, 78-RPM record album made by RCA Victor, and featured Serge Koussevitzky conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Because of his unusual appearance was often cast as exotic Middle
Eastern characters and Native Americans. His roles ranged from kindly,
but strict, priests to sinister villains. His only Shakespearean role
on film was that of the Soothsayer who warns "Beware the Ides of
March!" in Julius Caesar (1953).
