In Hollywood from the early 20s, he designed bold and inventive sets for many films over four decades, including several extravagantly spectacular musicals of Busby Berkeley, a number of film noir classics and Frank Capra's evergreen fantasy IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). An accomplished architect, he designed and supervised the construction of Alexander Corda's elaborate Denham Studios near London in 1934-35. He resumed his work in Hollywood in the early 40s. Other notable art direction credits include THE WHITE MOTH (1924), ONE YEAR TO LIVE (1925), OLD LOVES AND NEW (1926), THE NOTORIOUS LADY (1927), BROADWAY BABIES and SALLY (both 1929), THE DAWN PATROL (1930), FIVE STAR FINAL (1931), SO BIG! and I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (both 1932), 42ND STREET (1933), WONDER BAR and FLIRTATION WALK (both 1934), BORDERTOWN (1935), LYDIA (1941), JUNGLE BOOK (1942), HIGHER AND HIGHER (1943), NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART and EXPERIMENT PERILOUS (both 1944), JOHNNY ANGEL (1945), THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE and CRACK-UP (both 1946), OUT OF THE PAST (a.k.a. BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH, 1947), NIGHT SONG (1948), THE SET-UP (1949), BORN TO BE BAD and DOUBLE DEAL (both 1950), HARD, FAST AND BEAUTIFUL and THE RACKET (both 1951), AT SWORD'S POINT, THE NARROW MARGIN and BLACKBEARD, THE PIRATE (all 1952), SPLIT SECOND and DEVIL'S CANYON (both 1953), A BULLET FOR JOEY, BENGAZI and THE AMERICANO (all 1954), GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING (1955), SCREAMING EAGLES (1956), RUN OF THE ARROW (1957), THE MISSOUR TRAVELER (1958) and his last picture, THE YOUNG LAND (1959).

Nominated for Art Direction 1929-30: SALLY    Nominated for Art Direction-Interior Decoration (Black & White) 1945: EXPERIMENT PERILOUS - Art Direction (w. Albert S. D'Agostino) 2 nominations