Former boyfriend of Bette Midler; they lived together in the 1970s. He played perennial boyfriend Herbie to Midler's Mama Rose in "Gypsy" in the 1993 made-for-TV film version of the hit Broadway musical.

Played a wild, authority-hating frat brother in Animal House (1978) and a stiff, rigid, no-nonsense authoritarian cop in The Mask (1994).

Made his professional debut playing Chico Marx in "Minnie's Boys," the musical based on The Marx Brothers.

Once was a school teacher teaching eighth grade.