When he left the 1984 off-Broadway production of "Fool for Love", he was replaced by his understudy, Bruce Willis.
Narrates audio books. Has narrated over forty audio books, including Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", and James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" series (twenty books in the series so far).
Eldest son of William Rankin Patton, Senior. His father was a Lutheran minister, an acting/directing instructor, and a playwright.