- American architect and art director; under contract at Universal, 1948-54, later free-lance. Won an Oscar for his work on Cleopatra (1963). He was inducted into the Art Director's Guild Hall of Fame in 2006.
- A residence he built in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles in 1960 was listed in 2010 for sale at $1.995 million.
- Studied architecture at the University of Southern California. Began in the film business as a draftsman at RKO in 1934.
- Using an aqualung for underwater breathing, he handled the principal photography for a pivotal underwater scene in The Night of the Hunter (1955), though his position on the film crew was actually art director.
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