Career
His first cr was as an assistant editor on the 1932 film What Price Hollywood?. He then edited a string of B-movies throughout the 1930s and "40s, picking up his first Oscar nomination in 1949 for the dark thriller The Window (directed by Ted Tetzlaff). His productive association with Stanley Kramer began in 1955 and yielded his greatest work: The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and lieutenant"s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).