Legendary Hollywood "tough guy", on screen and off. Remembered as the title character in Dillinger, l'ennemi public n°1 (1945) and as the consummately brutal lover of Claire Trevor in Né pour tuer (1947). Notorious also for his frequent, well-publicized past involvements in public altercations - like barroom brawls - and other real-life manifestations of rowdiness. (In a 1973 incident, he managed to get himself stabbed.) Though now a puffy-faced, totally bald old man, he continues as screen actor to project the hard-as-nails mien that has been ingrained since his younger days, as he evidences quite amply in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992).
