Born in 1937 in Los Angeles, California. Went to Santa Monica City College where he dropped out after a year due to bad frades. Trained at the Pasadena Playhouse for two years.
Famous for taking a wide range of difficult roles, such as a crippled street husther, an actor pretending to be a woman, an autistic person.
Never win a Oscar but several important prizes
Has a reputation for geing difficult to work whit.
One of the most important film (1967) was about a *censured*/love history with a "special" woman