Early in Prince's career, he supplemented his limited income from acting in summer stock productions in Pennsylvania by photographing children professionally. Off-season from summer stock he was an announcer at WQXR radio in New York City. After signing a film contract, he acted in
Destination Tokyo,
Objective Burma, and
Dead Reckoning. Prince worked primarily in television in the 1950s, having moved back to New York. In 1947, he became one of the founding members of
The Actors Studio. Over the next decade, he made numerous appearances on
anthology drama series such as
Studio One,
The Philco Television Playhouse, and
Armstrong Circle Theatre, and in 1955, Prince co-starred with
Gary Merrill in the second season of
Justice, an
NBC drama about lawyers of the Legal Aid Society of
New York. Prince had roles on several soap operas, including one of the lead roles on
Young Dr. Malone from 1958 to 1963,
Another World,
As the World Turns,
The Edge of Night,
Search for Tomorrow and
A World Apart, often appearing with his actress wife
Augusta Dabney. Two of his film roles were as Christian de Neuvillette in the classic 1950
Cyrano de Bergerac starring
José Ferrer, and as Edward Ruddy, president of the fictional UBS network in
Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film,
Network. He also portrayed patriarch Ambassador
Joseph P. Kennedy in the 1977 teleplay
Johnny, We Hardly knew Ye. Other films Prince appeared in include
Alfred Hitchcock's
Family Plot (1976),
The Gauntlet (1977) with
Clint Eastwood,
Spies Like Us (1985) with
Chevy Chase and
Dan Aykroyd and
The Paper (1994). Returning to Broadway, Prince had leading roles in
John Loves Mary and
Forward the Heart. He appeared as Orlando in
As You Like It, with
Katharine Hepburn, and as
Christopher Isherwood in
I Am a Camera. In 1963, he played Charles Marsden in the
Actors Studio production of
Strange Interlude. He took leading roles in several plays by
Edward Albee, beginning with
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe in 1963. He understudied "Charlie" in the Broadway production of
Seascape (1975), co-starred in the Hartford Stage Company's 1976 revival of
All Over, appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in
Counting the Ways and
Listening in 1977, and played the title role in the short-lived
The Man Who Had Three Arms in 1983. During the 1970s, 1980s and into the early 1990s, Prince made guest appearances on dozens of primetime television series and miniseries including
Cannon,
Hawaii Five-O,
Kojak,
The Rockford Files,
Quincy, M.E.,
Matlock and
Murder, She Wrote. He also reunited with
Cyrano star
José Ferrer for the
made-for-television films
The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) and ''
Gideon's Trumpet (1980). In the latter, Ferrer played attorney for petitioner Gideon, Abe Fortas, and Prince was seen as one of the Supreme Court Justices. In 1992, he appeared on the long-running NBC drama Law & Order'' in the episode "The Working Stiff", playing a corrupt former governor and friend of District Attorney
Adam Schiff involved in a banking scandal. ==Personal life and death==