[1] Turgeon appeared in stage plays including Call Me Mister, Brigadoon, The Beggar's Opera, A Thurber Carnival and Send Me No Flowers.

[7] On screen Turgeon played Jack Peterson in seven episodes of the television sitcom Mister Peepers, starring Wally Cox.

[1] He also appeared in films such as Muscle Beach Party, Me, Natalie, Some Kind of a Nut, Dear Heart, The World of Henry Orient and The Possession of Joel Delaney.

[1] After retiring from film and television in 1989, Turgeon worked as an actor, director and writer for the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, also working at the John Drew Theatre at Guild Hall of East Hampton in East Hampton, New York.

[1][5] Turgeon died in October 2000 at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, New York.