- Appeared with the only American company at the 25th International Theatre Festival for Youth in Nuremberg, Germany.
- Appeared in three different productions of "The Fantasticks"; once as Bellomy, the girl's father; once as Hucklebee, the boy's father; and once as Mortimer, the man who dies.
- Made TV debut in "Police Story II: The Freeway Killings" with wife Brenda as a married couple taken hostage by a fleeing fugitive but rescued by cops Tony LoBianco and Don Meredith.
- Formed the Two Loose Nuts comedy team with Paul McEachern and performed in several L. A. clubs as well as scripting, producing and starring in a film spoof on TV game shows entitled "Anybody Can Play".
- Worked with Stephanie Edwards on the radio show "Moot Point Lodge".
- His first play at Ole Miss was "You Can't Take It With You"; 34 years later he acted in it again at Actors Co-op of Hollywood with Moss Hart's son Chris directing and starring Alan Young as Grandpa.
- Appeared in various productions with a half dozen respected Hollywood companies. They include: Theatre 40, Actors Co-op, Theatre Banshee, the MET, Sacred Fools, Theatricum Botanicum.
- Acted with Jack Gwillim in the film "Blue Shark Hash" and later with his son Jaxon Duff Gwillim and daughter-in-law Jennifer Taub in the play "Red Noses" at Theatre Banshee.
- Appeared in 1980 with Karen Kondazian and Ed Harris in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" at the Gene Dynarski Theatre. In 1996 appeared again with Kondazian in Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" at the Fountain Theatre. Karen told him, "Let's get together every 16 years and do another Williams play." They only had to wait another year, however, before working together again although not in a Williams play but rather the film "Postal Worker" with Brad Garrett, Karen as Garrett's mother and Gary as his co-worker who is slaughtered in the movie's climactic shootout.
- Portrayed two actual people: murderer Gene Hanson in "America's Most Wanted: The John Hawkins Story" and defense attorney Robert Blasier in E! TV's re-enactment of "The O. J. Civil Trial".
- Made professional debut with the Red Balloon Players, a professional children's theatre company in Memphis, Tennessee, in the title role of "The Brave Little Tailor".
- Toured continental U. S. two seasons with the Everyman Players with roles in Sophocles' "Electra" and Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
- Appeared off-off-Broadway in "The Pilgrim's Progress".
- Appeared in the play "The Pajama Game" with Sue Ane Langdon.
- Appeared in the play "The Best Man" with TV's "Mr. Lucky" John Vivyan.
- Appeared in a Movie-of-the-Week "The Bates Motel" as the Baptist preacher conducting the funeral of Norman Bates' mother. Intended also as a pilot for a series, NBC didn't pick it up.
- Shot an unsold pilot entitled "Friday Night At Stoney's" about a bar in a small mid-western town where the principal employer is the local asylum for disturbed individuals. If the patients behave themselves during the week, they're treated to a Friday night out--at Stoney's Bar.
- Appeared at the Fountain Theatre with wife Brenda as Rev. and Mrs. Winemiller in Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke" which won the 1999 L. A. Ovation Award for best production out of 287 eligible plays. Their "stage" daughter Tracy Middendorf as Alma also won the Ovation for best actress out of what the L. A. Times referred to as the most star-studded competition of the event. Nominated in her category were Annette Bening, Ruby Dee, Phyllis Frelich and Linda Lavin.
- Appeared in three Shakespearean productions: on tour with the Everyman Players as Stephano in "The Tempest", with the Kaleidoscope Players of New Mexico as the Pedant in "The Taming of the Shrew" and doubling as a Gossip and a Shepherd's Servant in "The Winter's Tale" at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum under the direction of Ellen Geer.
- In the late 70s appeared as a gold miner in a commercial for Work Horse Chewing Tobacco. It aired regionally in 15 southern and mid western states for three years.
- Worked with Stephen Tobolowsky on three occasions: once opposite him on stage in "Escape From Happiness", under his direction in another stage play "Blue Silence" and on film with him in "The Importance of Blind Dating". They also both appeared in the film "Murder in the First" but did not share any scenes.
- Appeared in the play "Light Up the Sky" with Dena Dietrich who achieved fame as Mother Nature in the Chiffon Margarine commercials where she intoned the iconic phrase, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
- (November 15, 2018 - December 16, 2018) Stage play: Bus Stop--playing Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, CA. Appeared as Virgil Blessing in this revival of the William Inge play. Don Murray who had co-starred with Marilyn Monroe in the 1956 20th Century-Fox film version of the play attended the December 9 matinee and joined the cast onstage afterwards for a Q and A with the audience. Among other things he related how Marilyn had been difficult to work with because she was frequently late to the set and often forgot her lines or veered out of character.
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