He was the narrator for the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show too, my favorite cartoon when I was a kid; Wassamatta U., Frostbite Falls, MN, lol.
I learned years later he was fighter pilot in WW II also.
A lot of TV & film stars served. James Doohan, “Scotty” of Star Trek, was in Canadian infantry and was shot up by friendly fire on D-Day, with a finger having to be amputated.
“Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat! Ooops, wrong hat!!”