Film director, screenwriter
Educated at the City College of New York, Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
After he retired from directing, he taught courses in film at California State University-Northridge.
American director of second features, the son of a tailor. Many of his films were competent but routine westerns, war films and crime melodramas. He first worked for Republic, joining Universal from 1936-38. At Columbia (1940-43, 1947 and 1952-53) he handled, among other assignments, four installments of the popular Lone Wolf series. After 1953 he was primarily active as a director of episodic television.
Served with the U.S. Marines during World War II, rising to the rank of major. Working with a documentary film unit aboard an aircraft carrier, he was wounded in action during an attack by Japanese aircraft.
