[citation needed] He majored in education, music, and speech at Louisiana State University.

[3] Dufour went to New York in 1949; there he acted in theaters and performed in minstrel shows and night clubs.

He worked as an elevator operator and taught acting to supplement his income from entertaining.

[3] Early in his career, Dufour acted in Best Foot Forward in summer stock theater in Guilford, Connecticut.

[1] On Broadway he portrayed the sheriff in The Grass Harp (1952) and Abraham Levy in Abie's Irish Rose (1954).