American film director
Began making movies at age 11 when an uncle gave him an 8mm camera.
Acted in several Broadway shows in the 1950s.
Father, with Mary Carver , of voice actress Lia Sargent.
Worked during his last decade as the senior filmmaker-in-residence for the directing program at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles and as the first professor of a masters program in film directing at Pepperdine University in Malibu.
Trained at the Actors Studio in New York.
With his wife Carolyn, he helped co-found Deaf Theatre West. He then went on to found the Free Arts Clinic For Abused Children.
His father was an ice-wagon driver, and his mother was a seamstress.
