[1] On Broadway he appeared in productions such as Holiday for Lovers (1957), The Best House in Naples (1956), Idiot's Delight (1951)[2] and Romeo and Juliet (1951) starring Olivia de Havilland.
[3] In the late 1940s, he performed in Chicago area summer stock theaters with actors such as Richard Kiley.
[6] He appeared in numerous live broadcast anthology drama television series with lead roles in episodes of Police Call,[7][8] one of the top grossing television series released in 1955,[9] as well as a supporting role in the Producers' Showcase production (1957) of the melodramatic comedic Broadway play The Great Sebastians, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne[10] and the Armstrong Circle Theatre episode The Sound of Violence: The Jukebox Racket (1959).
[11] He toured with Mae West as her Latin lover in Come On Up, Ring Twice and performed in the TV version of the Moon and Sixpence with Laurence Olivier (1959).
[12] Furlan later became the mentor of Wisconsin's Sunset Playhouse [13] where he remained artistic director for 28 years.