- Was offered the part of Asa Buchanan on One Life to Live (1968) on the strength of his unsuccessful audition for Palmer Cortlandt on the soap All My Children (1970).
- In his series Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1956), the story of the British cavalry unit, his lead character was made Canadian instead of British because the New Jersey-born actor had difficulty perfecting an English accent.
- Diagnosed with lung cancer in January 2006, he died three years later.
- Father of Geoffrey Carey.
- Doppelgänger for Charlton Heston.
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