He was one of the show’s great “dopey guy in the band set up as the patsy” (the other being the trumpet “player” from Etude in Black). I loved him in David Lynch’s Dune, and as the antagonistic Secretary of Defense in Air Force One.
It's a coincidence that Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman played the fictionalized Leopold and Loeb in the movie COMPULSION. Because even though they aren't exactly traits you're supposed to like, two of my favorite COLUMBO victims are "half-baked swinger" Eric Wagner and "weak" Tony Goodland.