Biografia

His acting mentor is the late Andy Griffith.

His idol when he was very young was Andy Griffith.

Since birth, he was a huge fan of The Andy Griffith Show (1960), that starred Andy Griffith. Several years after that show went off the air, he started making guest-appearances on Andy Griffith's Matlock (1986), prior to becoming an unfamiliar actor, before he would replace Clarence Gilyard Jr. in the role, when the series moved from Los Angeles, California to Wilmington, North Carolina, for the show's seventh season.

Is a major Universal Monster collector.

Profiled in "Character Kings: Hollywood's Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting" by Scott Voisin.

I'm all about shocking field, and I know it looks like I'm a chubby, overweight, middle-aged guy, but, this is all fake.

[on his Lost (2004) character]: I'm playing Leslie again but maybe I'm a ghost, or maybe [the writers] are just looking at things from a different perspective. I can't really say for sure.

[When he was recasting his role in Halloween - The Beginning (2007)]: I'm in the movie dressed as the Frankenstein monster! So, that was clearly a gift to me because Rob knows I'm such a big Frankenstein fan. I can remember sitting around on the set thinking, Who else gets to do this kind of thing? My life is filled with these kind of dream-come-true kind of moments.

[on being a character actor]: I am an everyman, and to be an everyman, what I look like now is not what people look like in Hollywood. What I look like what people look like in New Jersey, and because of that, people put me in TV shows and in movies because I could be anybody sitting next to you.

[If he was afraid he'd ever be typecasted]: Typecasting has never been a problem in my career. I'm probably opposite, non-typecasting. We can't cast him, we don't know who he is or what he is.