Often credited Frank Sinatra for saving his show business career in the early 1940s, and maintained a close relationship with each other in later years.
Son of James Downey (fire chief of Wallingford, CT) and Elizabeth Cox.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
One, 1981-1985, pages 242-243. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1998.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 1680 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
Ann Trainer, his wife, was a well-known interior decorator in Manhattan's Upper East Side area.