- Received a Tony Award nomination in 1956 as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "Pipe Dream."
- An active member of the Fortune Society, a prisoner's-rights group.
- Kellin and his wife, Sally Moffet, both died in their early 60s from lung cancer.
- Won an Obie award for the play "American Buffalo" in 1976.
- He died only three days before his The Thirty-Fathom Grave (1963) co-star Simon Oakland.
- His mother, Sophia, was a Russian Jewish immigrant, and his father, Samuel Kellin, was born in England, to Russian Jewish parents.
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