Career
As an actor, most of his roles occurred between 1912 and 1936, not gaining as much attention as later he would as a director He worked as a screenwriter on three of the four films produced by Marcel Hellman"s and Douglas Fairbanks Junior."s production company Criterion Film Productions in the late 1930s, before switching to film direction in 1937, often with Marcel Hellman as producer. From 1940 to 1955, he had several box-office successes as director
Although he did some television work after 1955, he appears to have retired from directing and acting after 1963.
He died in 1997 at the age of 100. Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue.