Career
Mainly involved in theatre, his film career was short, directing The Girl in 419, Midnight Club and Torch Singer in 1933 and Wharf Angel in 1934, co-directing either with Alexander Hall or William Cameron Menzies. On stage he directed productions such as the drama Reprise (1935), the comedies Sun Kissed (1937) and The Greatest Show on Earth (1938), the melodrama Brown Danube (1939), and the drama Land"s End (1946). The couple bought the Wood-Morris-Bonfils House in Denver in 1948, and in the 1950s they produced several plays together in Denver.
Somnes died in 1956 and was buried at the Fairmount Memorial Mausoleum in that city, and was joined by Bonfils in 1972.
