Attended the Paris Schola Cantorum, studying violin and composition. Worked in the orchestra pits of silent film theatres. Directed short documentaries, then feature films from 1924. He was best known for the film Remorques (1941).
The sixteen industrial short subjects that he made with his mentor cinematographer Georges Perinal between 1923 and 1926 are now all considered to be lost.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One,
1890-1945". Pages 411-415. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company,
1987.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1947