[1] Luby attended City College of New York then worked as an architect and a chemist.
He directed small theatre groups in Greenwich Village and worked as a cartoonist.
Luby continued with animation until 1931 when he became a live action film editor[2] beginning with Shotgun Pass.
Luby became a prolific editor for a variety of low budget Westerns for minor studios becoming a director in 1934 with Range Warfare.
He gave up feature film directing in 1943 to concentrate on editing for films and later television, becoming a supervising editor on several television shows for Roland D. Reed (a fellow former B Western editor and director) Productions such as My Little Margie and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.