- Originally hired to play C.C. Capwell on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara (1984) but was forced to leave the series before it debuted on television as he suffered a heart attack.
- He began his career on the radio in Canada when he was 11 years old. He moved on to stage and movie work, and eventually moved to Los Angeles in 1960 to co-star on the television series Hong Kong (1960).
- Had played Dr. Wendell Roberts in The Detective (1968), based on a novel by author Roderick Thorp. His son, actor Hart Bochner, played Harry Ellis in Die Hard (1988), which was based on Thorp's novel "Nothing Lasts Forever", the sequel to "The Detective".
- Was a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator with the call sign N6CKF.
- He and his son Hart Bochner both provided voices for Batman. He did the voice of Mayor Hamilton Hill on Batman: The Animated Series (1992). In the feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), Hart did the voice of D.A. Arthur Reeves.
- Following his death, he was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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