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Born Orson Whipple Hungerford, Jr., he was a virile, muscular, handsome leading man and supporting actor of Hollywood films of the '60s. He was billed "Ty Hungerford" in his first film, I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958). He starred in the TV series Bronco (1958-61) and Riptide (1965), but in the mid '60s his Hollywood career dried up; he moved to Europe for a decade, appearing in European films sporadically until the early '70s. For some time he lived in Los Boliches, Spain, where he owned a bar and a chain of laundromats. In the summer of 1974 he was jailed for a month and fined $9200 for drug-trafficking, having allegedly been found with 25 kilos of hashish hidden in his car. In 1977, back in the U.S., he converted to Born-Again Christianity; for some time he was a minister, preaching in tents around the country and heading his own congregation in Prescott, Arizona. He also filmed a half-hour religious program, Going Home, that aired three times a week in 39 states on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. He has been married six times and divorced five; his wives included actress Andra Martin, former Miss Universe Marlene Schmidt, and model Jeanette Atkins.