[2][3] He started as a theatre booking agent in Los Angeles and moved to New York in 1928.
He joined Consolidated Film Industries from 1933 to 1936 before going to work for producer George Hirliman.
He produced the first six films in the successful Ma and Pa Kettle film series, although Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki made in 1952 was the seventh to be released in 1955 after he had died.
[1] He spent nearly five years at Universal-International before moving to 20th-Century Fox in 1952 where he formed Panoramic Pictures in 1953.
He had just signed a deal with United Artists to produce 10 films before he died.