Career
His most noted work is probably the Gene Autry film Red River Valley in 1936, and the original Dick Tracy serial film in 1937, working with Edgar Lyons. One author described his contribution to filmmaking as follows:
Another notes the "fine photography" by Nobles in The Fighting Devil Dogs, 1938. Nobles was born in Waubay, South Dakota, and died in Costa Mesa, California, at the age of 75.