Career
He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He directed his first film, While London Sleeps, in 1926, and thereafter spent more than the next three decades working mostly as a film director Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952.
Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.