- Earned a Bronze Star in World War II (Air Force).
- Wife Patricia had seven children from a previous marriage when they wed.
- Prior to acting he earned a teaching degree at Bates College in Maine and became a drama and English high school teacher for a time.
- Handsome, pleasant dark-haired leading man of WWII films who typically played young husband, boyfriend or recruit. His film career was fatally interrupted by military service and in post-war years sought work on stage and TV.
- Tested (with Paulette Goddard) for the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939) but didn't get it.
- Retired from acting to work in real estate.
- His father, John A. Lind, died June 14, 1954, in Auburn, Massachusetts at the age of 80. He had been a welder at Crompton & Knowles Loom Works for 47 years retiring at the age of 77.
- Served as his unit's Intelligence Officer in WWII. Occasionally played bartender in his unit's Officers's Club, introducing many young airmen to their first martini.
- Legally changed to stage name in 1942.
- Appeared in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: A Letter to Three Wives (1949), All This, and Heaven Too (1940) and Four Daughters (1938).
- Lived in Tarzana, California in 1975.
- Developed an interest in acting while studying at Bates College in Maine. Was signed by Warner Brothers in 1937, after appearing in a touring production of 'Brother Rat'.
- After marrying Robin Chandler they honeymooned in Bermuda and then resided in Santa Monica, California. Two children from this union: Letitia of Charleston, S.C. & Jeffrey Jr of Southampton, L.I. Letitia attended Smith College and then married a Lithuanian named Dominicus Valiunas who, at the time, was President of Neris Transatlantic Minerals, Inc. (New York-based coal company with mines in West Virginia). They have since divorced.
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