- Tied with Marc Daniels for having directed more Star Trek (1966) episodes (14 in total) than any other director.
- He was known as a very organized and precise director, who was nonetheless relaxed on the set.
- After World War II he acted with Paul Muni's Los Angeles-based "Key Largo" troupe.
- Broadway actor/director from 1936-46.
- Served during World War II with the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Staged revues for troops based in the European theatre.
- Father of Jeff Pevney.
- He acted in only five films (1946-1950), all of them films noir, his first as a piano-playing killer in Nocturne (1946).
- He started out as a child singer in vaudeville.
- In the noir 'The Street With No Name', his character brings a woman wearing a new fur coat to gang boss Richard Widmark's apartment, and is chewed out for being too flashy and obvious so that the cops might notice: a scene that would be repeated decades later in Martin Scorsese's epic Goodfellas.
- He spent most of his career behind the camera and his first film as a director was Shakedown (1950) in which he makes a Hitchcock-style cameo as Keller the reporter, his last on-screen part. After spending the 1950s as a contract director at Universal, he switched to television where his early credits include five episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962).
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