He supported himself by doing odd jobs such as usher, waiter, truck driver, delivery man and sign painter.

Between 1943 and 1946, he appeared in Gildersleeve on Broadway, Tender Comrade, Music in Manhattan, Heavenly Days and several other motion pictures.

In 1955, Road made his directorial debut in Sweden with the film The Magnificent Lie, starring Signe Hasso.

[2] He appeared in the series The Alaskans and Lawman, and in other venues: Sea Hunt, Gunsmoke (as “Ab Butler” in the S6E1 offering “Friend’s Pay Off”), The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, The Wild, Wild West ("The Night of the Tottering Tontine", S2E16, as Martin Dexter), and Alias Smith and Jones (episode: "Shootout at Diablo Station", 1971).

He was also the voice of Ugh the Giant Caveman on Space Ghost and Dino Boy (1966), Zandor on The Herculoids (1967), John Butler on Valley of the Dinosaurs (1974), and Reed Richards on The New Fantastic Four in 1978.