 He came to some prominence in 1960s films, often playing characters much older than his real age, such as Mr. Dawes, Jr., in Disney's "Mary Poppins" (1964), and King Eidilleg in Disney's 1985 animated film "The Black Cauldron".He played undertaker Ted Ulam in Norman Jewison's 1967 film "In the Heat of the Night", and Joe Fenwick in a 1972 episode of "Columbo", "Dagger of the Mind".He went on to play a village elder in Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein" in 1974, the graveyard keeper in John Carpenter's "Halloween" in 1978, a houseman in the 1984 film "Oh God, You Devil", Tootles in 1991's "Hook", and Owen Owens in the 1992 film "Toys".