- Prior to working in films, he served with the 71st Regiment of the National Guard in New York.
- His first jobs included being a runner for the New York stock exchange, then working in offices at the Liverpool London Insurance Co. and the Standard Felt Co. With a colleague from the National Guard, he purchased a candy store across 14th Street, where D.W. Griffith had his studio. When that business went bust, Van Enger was helped by another friend to get a position in a photographic laboratory, where film was washed, printed and perforated.
- During the 1920s he worked at Triangle, Universal and Warner Brothers. He joined Fox from 1929-30, then spent most of the decade leading up to World War II in England, with Gaumont-British. Between 1940-50 he was under contract to Universal, where he worked on several entries of the Sherlock Holmes series and several Bud Abbott and Lou Costello comedies..
- Brother of cinematographer Willard Van Enger.
- Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
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