After completing his bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of British Columbia, he received an Imperial Relations Trust Bursary to travel to England, where he intended to write a book on the history of film.

[5] Seeking work internationally, in 1954, Beveridge began a project in India for the Burma Shell Oil Company, for which he produced and directed 40 training films.

[6] Beveridge returned to Canada to head his own production company in 1965, producing a multi-screen presentation in the Man in Control pavilion at Expo 1967.

While in Japan, he produced Hands (1975) for Mobil Sekiyu Oil Company, winning the Grand Prize at the 1975 World Craft Council Film Festival in New York.

[7] Beveridge continued to be active as a filmmaker for the rest of his life, contributing as a screenwriter, consultant and advisor on a number of international projects.

[4] He was also the author of Script Writing for Short Films (1969) and co-author with Wilbur Lang Schramm, of Television and the Social Education of Women: A First Report on the Unesco-Senegal Pilot Project at Dakar, Issues 49-58 (1967).