He attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia for a year before he transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles.

[citation needed] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

He also guest-starred that first year (1960) in Wagon Train as the son of title character played by Leslie Nielsen in the episode "The Jeremy Dow Story".

His sixth guest appearance on the final sixth-season episode in 1963 introduced his character, Barnaby West, a regular until the series' end in 1965.

He appeared as a guest star in over 35 series during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly Westerns, including Gunsmoke, The Virginian, The Road West, The Legend of Jesse James, and The Big Valley.

He appeared as Blue Boy in "The LSD Story", the pilot episode of the relaunched Jack Webb police series Dragnet 1967.

They have restored the Cambus-Kenneth Estate, a crop, cattle, and thoroughbred horse farm listed on the National Register of Historic Places.