Worked on numerous low-budget sci-fi and horror productions for American-International Pictures, many directed by Roger Corman. Wife Jackie Blaisdell worked
with him frequently, creating monster masks, costumes and special
effects.
He and Bob Burns published a short lived horror magazine called "Fantastic Monsters of the Films".
Attended the New England School of Art where he met wife Jackie Blaisdell. They
married shortly after graduating.