[1] Doyle was under contract to Warner Brothers during the mid-1930s, before his sudden death at the age of twenty-nine.
Born in Ashley, Illinois to William H. Doyle (1973-1937), a former Reno bank official turned Real Estate agent in Los Angeles, and Emma Laird (1880-1956), he began his professional career as a newspaperman in San Francisco before joining KNX Radio as a writer-producer.
Films he either adapted, wrote screenplays or dialogue for included "Sing and Like It" (1934), "Finishing School" (1934), "The Key" (1934), "Oil for the Lamps of China" (1935), "Front Page Woman" (1935), "Stars Over Broadway" (1935), "Special Agent" (1935), "Dangerous" (1935), "Hearts Divided" (1936), "Cain and Mabel" (1936), "Three Men On a Horse" (1936), "Strangers on Honeymoon" (1936), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937) and "San Quentin" (1937).
He died of a fractured skull and other multiple injuries at Physicians' and Surgeons' Hospital in Glendale, California within an hour after the plane he was flying solo banked too steeply and crashed near the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale.
His final film credit, "Northwest Outpost" (1947), appeared over a decade after his premature death.