 In 1960, he appeared in the role of Nanki-Poo in a "Bell Telephone Hour" television abridgement of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "The Mikado", starring Groucho Marx as Ko-Ko, the executioner.He was also an occasional guest star on the TV version of the musical series "The Voice of Firestone".On television's "NBC Opera Theatre", he sang the role of Don Jose in an English-language version of "Carmen" (1953) and the Chevalier de la Force in the first American television production (also in English) of "Dialogues of the Carmelites" (1957).