Director, songwriter ("Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere", "Mam'selle"), composer, producer and author. He came to the US in 1919 and joined ASCAP in 1947. His chief musical collaborators included Elsie Janis and 'Mack Gordon (I)', and his other popular song compositions include "Sweetest Moment", "The Lovely Song My Heart Is Singing", "Fury of the Sea", "To Rest In the Glory", "You Are A Song", "Alone In the Rain" and "Oh, Give Me Time For Tenderness".

• Former stage actor. Wounded in World War I and emigrated to the United States.
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 406-411. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
• His wife was so small she had to have her shoes specially made.
• He married his wife very quickly after learning that she was dying from tuberculosis.
• His wife, Marjorie Violet Moss, was born in 1893 in London. She was part of a vaudeville dance act during her younger years.