Forest Lawn, Hollywood.
Borden Chase, born Frank Fowler, went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays. When 20th Century Fox produced Under Pressure (1935), his screen adaptation of his novel, Sandhog (based on his Holland Tunnel experience), he moved to Hollywood and changed his name to Borden Chase, allegedly getting his nominal inspiration from Borden Milk and Chase Manhattan Bank.
Al Checco appeared in films as Hotel (1967), The Party, Bullitt (1968), Angel in My Pocket (1969), Skin Game (1971), The Terminal Man (1974), Pete's Dragon (1977) and Zero to Sixty (1978). On TV, he played Leno LaBianca in Helter Skelter, and he was on The Phil Silvers Show, Mister Ed, Gomer Pyle: USMC, The Flying Nun, The FBI, Here’s Lucy, The Rockford Files, Highway to Heaven, Batman, the Munsters, and Scrubs, his final onscreen credit, in 2004.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov was a Russian-American actor, director, and author. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, and Yul Brynner. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov. Though he was mostly a stage actor, he made notable appearances on film, memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), which earned an oscar nomination.