Born William Woodson Hudson, Jr. in Gilroy, California in 1925, he was the younger brother of future actor John Hudson, though he actually seemes to have entered movies first, during the mid-1940's, appearing in uncredited roles while in his teens, in such distinguished productions as Destination Tokyo (1943) and Objective, Burma! (rottentomatoes.com)
That resulted in his big - screen debut, in an uncredited role in the 20th Century - Fox drama Red Skies of Montana (1952). (rottentomatoes.com)
Longtime Pollack collaborator, the writer David Rayfiel, in an uncredited role polishes up the script and tosses in his now much used line from other Pollack films starting with The Slender Thread (1965), as Penn tells Kidman: «Not getting caught in a lie is thought of in the same way as telling the truth.» (homepages.sover.net)