Received his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1969).
Has won numerous awards and praise for his on and off-Broadway stage work.
Has starred as Honore in the 2011 Los Angeles production of "Gigi" and performed the show's enormously popular song, "Yes, I Remember It Well", with his co-star, Millicent Martin at the McCallum Theatre's annual charity event in Palm Springs.
He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Ghostbusters (1984) and Die Hard (1988).