 He would reprise this role in more than a dozen Perry Mason telemovies from 1986 until 1995, starring opposite Raymond Burr, and appeared in the 1994 crime thriller "Double Exposure".In the 1990s, he semi-retired from acting to pursue a writing career.His first work was a military history of the court-martial of 63 black American soldiers during the First World War, titled "Farewell to the Mockingbirds" (1995), which won the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award.