Career
He began his career in film in 1936. He worked in a number of prominent British productions in the 1940s and 1950s, such as Scott of the Antarctic (1948), Whisky Galore! (1949), The Blue Lamp (1950), The Manitoba in the White Suit (1951), The Cruel Sea (1953), The Ladykillers (1955) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965).