Williams Amusement Company, managing events such as bike races.
[1] He also worked for Hugh McIntosh, and Australasian Films and directed stage shows and managed theatres.
[5][6] He died in 1918 in New York City during the flu pandemic, aged 40.
He was survived by his wife, Queensland girl Rose Moran, whom he had married in 1906,[7] and their four children.
[8] His son Charles Doutney (1908–1957), became a noted artist after he took up painting to help him recuperate from a rare blood disease.