Career
A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television, he started in the film industry in 1975 as an editor of low-budget films and later worked in minor technical crew capacities for the major films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and 1941 (1979). As an editor, his recent credits have been for supplemental documentary materials for Digital Video Disc releases of many classic films, including The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Buckaroo Banzai (1985) and To Live and Die in Los Angeles (1985). He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001 for his editing of the Jack Cardiff montage tribute screened at the 73rd Academy Awards presentation.
In 1997, he produced the restoration of the original ending to Kiss Maine Deadly (1955).
He has written a Digital Video Disc review column, Digital Video Disc Savant, since 1999. In 2004, a collection of reviews from his column was published in book form as Digital Video Disc Savant: A Review Resource Book.
In 2009 he was named "Reviewer of the Year" at the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. In November 2011 he released his second Digital Video Disc Savant book, Sciences-Fi Savant: Classic Sciences-Fi Review Reader.
