milestones
Year
Milestone
 
First stage work with Cape Cod Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts
 
Worked as editor at Stephen Day Press in Vermont
 
Left publishing upon reaching leading-man status at Cape Cod Playhouse
1938 
First Broadway appearance (as chorus dancer) in "You Never Know"
1940 
Wrote children's book, "Tito's Hats"
1940 
New York stage acting debut in "Kind Lady"
1945 
Film directing debut, "The Girl of the Limberlost"
1945 
Returned to New York; first starring role on Broadway in "Strange Fruit"
1947 
Worked as assistant director to John Ford on "The Fugitive"
1949 
Film acting debut in "Lost Boundaries"
1959 
Directed Audrey Hepburn in "Green Mansions"
1963 
TV directing debut, "The Farmer's Daughter" (episode)
1965 
First film as co-writer (with Jose-Maria Palacio) and producer, "Cabriola/Every Day's a Holiday" (also director)
1973 
Made TV-movie acting debut in two-hour pilot of "Tenafly"
1981 
Starred in the CBS series "Behind the Screen"
 
Appeared on the CBS primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest" as Phillip Erikson
1986 
Played Frederick in "Peter the Great" miniseries (NBC)
1987 
Returned to the stage in the revival of "The Best Man" at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles
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