Born in Kansas, USA. Sound recordist and sound effects editor who entered American film as a film editor for Edmund Goulding's SALLY, IRENE AND MARY at MGM in 1925. Other notable sound credits, alone or in collaboration, include GONE WITH THE WIND (1939, uncredited sound effects editor), REBECCA (1940, uncredited), THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (1941), SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, CASANOVA BROWN and BELLE OF THE YUKON (all 1944), IT'S A PLEASURE, WONDER MAN, ALONG CAME JONES, SPELLBOUND and AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (all 1945), and TOMORROW IS FOREVER, THE STRANGER and THE DARK MIRROR (all 1946).  Nominated for Special Effects 1939: GONE WITH THE WIND (w. Fred Albin) - Sound  Nominated for Special Effects 1940: REBECCA - Sound  Nominated for Special Effects 1944: SINCE YOU WENT AWAY - Sound 3 nominations