Sober, good-looking dramatic actor, first on 1950s Broadway ("Middle of the Night"), film (played Dr. Michael Rossi in Lana Turner's version of Peyton Place (1957)) and TV (Perry Mason (1957), The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1958)) who switched gears midstream to directing classic 1960s and '70s TV episodes (The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961), M*A*S*H (1972)).