He was an announcer for the Los Angeles Rams, and for Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, and Del Mar horse racetracks.
He has been the sports reporter for CBS Television in Los Angeles
(KCBS-TV), and KNX Radio, since the early 50s.
His wife of many years, Dee Arlen, was a actress in television during
the early 1950s and 1960s.
Ironically given his later career, Gil's character, Mouse, in The Wild
One mockingly mimics a race track commentator after Marlon Brando's
gang disrupt the meet.
Lives in Toluca Lake, California permanently. (April 2007)