Traveled to Paris where he resorted to begging

Arrived in NYC and worked as landscape gardener; lost job and worked as dishwasher and waiter; booked by police on suspicion of petty theft and blackmail; worked as taxi driver and then nightclub dancer

Replaced Clifton Webb as partner of Bonnie Glass in NY

First film, "My Official Wife"

Arrived in Hollywood

Break came when influential screenwriter recommended him for "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"

Acted in last film, "The Son of the Sheik"

Film biography made starring Anthony Dexter

Second film biography made starring Rudolf Nureyev