sentences:  Two of his first roles were in the films "Mr. Skeffington", starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains and "Janie", starring Joyce Reynolds.After a few smaller roles he achieved success as a character actor in supporting roles.In a career that spanned seven decades, his best-known roles are that of the barracks chief Hoffy in "Stalag 17", and the garrulous, tedious barfly McNulty in the "Twilight Zone" episode "A Kind of a Stopwatch".