An American actor from San Francisco with roots on Broadway, remembered as a footnote of pop-culture history for playing James Bond before Sean Connery, in the live 1954 television version of 'Casino Royale'. To later generations he is familiar as the hotel manager who interviews Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' (1980). Active largely on stage and in early television, he died in 2007. A smooth, capable American actor whose small screen legacy belies an unusual place in the Bond timeline. Read more