Spent time as a steelworker in his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Trained sentry dogs as an Air Policeman in the U.S. Air Force.It was revealed in the original screenplay for Fire and Ice (1983) that Sandor's character, Dark Wolf, and the evil sorceress Juliana had once been lovers and that Lord Nekron, the film's villain, was their son, and this was meant to provide Dark Wolf with his motivation for fighting them as well as explaining why, in the end, he alone was able to defeat Nekron. However, this was not featured in the finished film, a change director Ralph Bakshi claims he was not aware of.