Zimbalist experienced the successful theatre career both as an actor & the stage producer. He too appeared inside leading and supporting roles in many easily-received feature films.

Zimbalist & his married woman, a previous Stephanie Spaulding, come a parents of actress Stephanie Zimbalist, and Efrem had the revenant role in his girl's Eighties weak-blithe mystery series, Remington Steele, which starred Pierce Brosnan and co-starred Doris Roberts.