Best known to TV audiences as Lt. Elroy Carpenter, the obsequious toady to the scheming Capt. Binghampton, in McHale's Navy (1962) and Kelsey, the owner of Kelsey's Bar, in All in the Family (1971).
Makes an uncredited cameo appearance in The Rutles TV movie in 1978. He is the man who takes the microphone from George Harrison, who is also making a cameo appearance as a TV reporter.
Uncle of Jennifer Hastings, Julie Hastings, Matthew Hastings and Katharine Scott Hastings.