Named after his brother who died a premature infant in 1946 and Capt.
Edwin Brender (U.S. Army Air Corps) who lost his life flying "The
Hump" helping a C-47 crew air drop supplies to Allied ground forces along the Burma Road in WW2.
In 1980, he performed as a Clark Gable look-alike in commercials for Elsinore, Playboy Hotel, Casino in Atlantic City, Coleco video game "Looping" and The Dark Continent amusement park at Busch Gardens Tampa, Florida.
He studied acting at the Warren Robertson Acting Workshop in New
York.