Although mainly a stage actor, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), for which he received his only Academy Award nomination.
Meskipun utamanya adalah aktor panggung, ia membuat beberapa penampilan terkenal dalam film, diyakini paling diingat sebagai analis Freudian dalam Spellbound (1945) karya Alfred Hitchcock, dimana ia meraih satu-satunya nominasinya pada Academy Award.