Born in New York City. Sound technician and recordist at Universal who entered American film as an uncredited dialogue recordist for 1925's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and remained to record most of the studio's classic horror features. Other notable credits include HELL'S HEROES and ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (both 1930), DRACULA, WATERLOO BRIDGE and FRANKENSTEIN (all 1931), THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932), THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933), ONE MORE RIVER (1934), BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and REMEMBER LAST NIGHT? (both 1935), THE INVISIBLE RAY and MAGNIFICENT BRUTE (both 1936), TOP OF THE TOWN (1937), THE RAGE OF PARIS (1938), SON OF FRANKENSTEIN and TOWER OF LONDON (both 1939), THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS, THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES and THE BANK DICK (all 1940), THIS WOMAN IS MINE (1941), SABOTEUR and INVISIBLE AGENT (both 1942), CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and CORVETTE K-225 (both 1943), THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE, DEAD MAN'S EYES and HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (all 1944), THE HOUSE OF FEAR and SALOME WHERE SHE DANCED (both 1945), THE CAT CREEPS, CANYON PASSAGE and THE KILLERS (all 1946), and IVY and THE EXILE (both 1947).  Nominated for Special Effects 1940: THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS - Sound (w. Bernard B. Brown) 1 nomination