[1] After the war he joined Sydney's Mercury Theatre as an actor, co-starring in Molière's play, The Imaginary Invalid.
However, he soon moved to film, starting as a wardrobe assistant for Eureka Stockade (1949), then as an assistant at the Colorfilm lab, before joining the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Screen Australia).
[1] He remained with the Commonwealth Film Unit, which then became Film Australia, for many years before resigning in 1978 over the Australian government's political censorship of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner.
[1] Once independent, he produced Winter of Our Dreams (1981), Far East (1982), and One Night Stand (1984).
[1] A series of short films exploring themes of Aboriginal life in Australia in the 20th century:[2]