Age: 68.
Birthplace: New Westminister, B.C., Canada.
Current home: Sonoma County, Calif.
Marital status: Unmarried, previously married more than once.
Child: One, a boy.
Working on: The narration for a Jacques Cousteau film for Turner Broadcasting and a Perry Mason TV movie to air May 25th on NBC.
The last good movie I saw was: ”Bridge on the River Kwai.”
The most important book I`ve never read: I`ve read all the books I thought were important.
Favorite pigout foods: Tapioca pudding and macaroni and cheese. I`ve made them from my mother`s recipes for 60 years.
Favorite performers: Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Alec Guinness.
Favorite childhood memory: Riding the ferryboats in San Francisco.
Personal hero: Gordon D. Schaber, dean of McGeorge Law School in Sacramento.
Nobody knows I: Hate having my suits measured, my picture taken and doing publicity.
I`ve never been able to: Go around the world in 80 days.
If I could do it over, I`d: Do everything over in my career except playing Perry Mason.
I`d give anything to meet: The deposed high llama of Tibet.
I hope I never have to: Be involved in another war. Or that anyone else would have to.
I want to teach my child: Complete respect for other children.
My fantasy is: That I`m 75 years younger.
People who knew me in high school thought I was: I dropped out of junior high during the Depression and never went to high school. I did go to college later.
I knew I was a grown-up when I: I am not grown up yet.
My most irrational act: Resuming smoking after I had quit for a number of years. It was a choice between killing the director, getting drunk or smoking again. I should have killed the director.
If I`ve learned one thing in life, it`s: That it is perfectly marvelous being alive.
Major accomplishment: Haven`t done it yet.
