In August, 1963, he was a back-up dancer for Mitzi Gaynor in her show at South Shore Room at Harrah's Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nevada. The other dancers were in the show were Robert Street, Howard Kreiger, and Ron Dexter.
Graduated from Franklin High School, Los Angeles, and from Occidental College. He did a year of graduate work at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was also a veteran of the United States Marines by mid-1954.