In 1949, he made his professional stage debut with Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle in The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Olney Theatre in Olney, Maryland.
He performed with the Brattle Theatre's production of Othello and Henry IV Part I, which was later brought to the New York City Center (Playbill, January 1957) and later, Guys and Dolls with the Cohassett Music Circus [REF].