A wonderfully surreal running gag occurs in Gus' two-reel comedies with
Richard Lane: for no reason, a young woman will walk by Gus, stop, slap
him hard across the face and shout "How DARE you look like someone I
hate?!"
Was arrested in Hollywood in July 1945 on charges of possession of narcotics. At his trial, he admitted ownership of the drugs to save his wife from arrest. He was acquitted by an all-woman jury on November 28.
Began his career as an understudy to Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. With Earl Carroll's Vanities in 1930 and subsequently joined Orson Welles' Mercury Players.