- Used the money he made making gladiator movies in Italy to study opera.
- Was the second American actor/bodybuilder, after Steve Reeves, to be recruited by Italian producers to star in sword-and-sandal films.
- As of 2004 was residing in southern California, teaching singing and working as a personal trainer.
- Third generation Italian-American.
- Competed for the 1952 Mr. America title and finished 27th at the age of 19.
- In the late 1950s he and Joe Mauri were featured in a nightclub act with burlesque queen Lily Christine.
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