[1] During World War I he was a pilot in the Canadian Royal Flying Corps (RFC).
He married fellow Australian artist Stella Lewis Marks MVO at Chelsea Town Hall in 1911.
He was a friend of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', whom he met as a fellow officer in the Canadian RFC.
[3] He initiated the connection between Sir Alexander Korda and the Prudential enabling the building of Denham Film Studios.
[6][7][8][9][10][11] He was one of the key people involved in the Anglo-American film production company 'Fairbanks International', which collapsed due to Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s death in 1939.