- Jack Nicholson's private eye character in the film Chinatown (1974) was based in part on Otash. Otash also appeared occasionally in tough guy film roles.
- He wrote a memoir: Investigation Hollywood: Memoirs Of Hollywood's Top Private Detective. He was reportedly hired by Peter Lawford to assist him in covering up Kennedy-related incriminating evidence following the suicide death of Marilyn Monroe.
- Private detective.
- Was a Hollywood police officer, private investigator, author and part-time character actor who inserted himself into a number of Hollywood scandals.
- Worked for Hollywood Research Incorporated, whose clients included the infamous sleaze tabloid Confidential Magazine.
- Had one daughter, Colleen Otash, from his brief marriage to Columbia actress Doris Houck (aka Doris Colleen).
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