 After apprenticing at Paramount Pictures with his brother Wally, he worked on films such as "Farewell, My Lovely", "The Ten Commandments", "Houseboat", "Two for the Seesaw" and "The Towering Inferno", and television series such as "The Munsters", "Planet of the Apes", "Bonanza", "Hart to Hart" and "Kung Fu".For the last of these he won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Makeup" in 1972, and was also nominated unsuccessfully the following year.He was nominated a third time in 1978 with his nephew Michael for "A Love Affair