[3][4] After graduating from high school, Randall worked in the photography studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and is reported to have appeared as an extra in some of the films of John Ford.

[1][8] After the war, he moved to Paris, France, where he secured a job at Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue magazine, with whom he was employed for seven years.

[12][13] According to newspaper interviews at the time, he was preparing a book of photographs of Laguna residents;[11][7] however, it appears this projected work was never published.

[b] In 1975, he started teaching photography courses through the University of California, Irvine, and at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.

[4][14] Randall died aged 65 in La Jolla's University Hospital on September 19, 1984, as a result of complications following heart bypass surgery.