[3] After attending the University of Southern California, where he played baseball under coach Sam Barry and was member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, Beradino was a major league player from 1939 to 1952,[3] except for three years of military service in the U.S.

Beradino appeared briefly in an uncredited role as a state trooper in the 1954 thriller Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden, and later performed as a policeman who allows Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) to make a phone call to his mother in the 1959 Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest.

He also appeared in a 1956 episode of the television series Adventures of Superman titled "The Unlucky Number" as a small-time criminal struggling to reform.

Beradino played a minor gangster in The Untouchables pilot that originally aired as an installment in the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

He then played the recurring role of gangster Augie Viale in two episodes from the first season of The Untouchables series, "The Jake Lingle Killing" and "One-Armed Bandits".

December 2, 1959, Beradino appeared in the episode "The Third Strike" of the syndicated adventure series Rescue 8, playing a professional baseball player who loses consciousness when struck by a wild pitch and awakens with short-term amnesia.

[3] In tribute, General Hospital left Beradino's image with that of Rachel Ames in its opening sequence for more than a year after his death, through several updates.