Career
Before moving to Australia, he made several films in South Africa, and directed a documentary in India called Beasts in the Jungle (1918). He moved to Australia in 1922 and lost several hundred pounds of his own money investing in his own film. He made a second feature Daughter of the East then mainly worked on documentaries and commercials.
In 1947 he directed a few scenes for a proposed feature The Intimate Stranger which was never completed.