He was born in San Fernando, California, as Warren John Vanderschuit.

[citation needed] Under the name Warren Vanders, he secured a recurring role as Chuck Davis in fifteen episodes of the NBC modern western television series, Empire.

(twice), Kung Fu, Hawaii Five-O (1970, as Jase Gorman in the episode: The Payoff), The Rockford Files, and How the West Was Won.

[4][5] He was also a boxer, winning the Los Angeles 1954 Golden Gloves Championship, and continued to box when he was in the United States Navy.

[6] Vanders died on November 27, 2009, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, after having lung cancer.