American director of second features, the son of a tailor. Many of his films were competent but routine westerns, war films and crime melodramas. He first worked for Republic, joining Universal from 1936-38. At Columbia (1940-43, 1947 and 1952-53) he handled, among other assignments, four installments of the popular Lone Wolf series. After 1953 he was primarily active as a director of episodic television.