Film Director. He received notoriety as an American motion picture and television director of the 1920s to the 1960s. He directed the popular 1941 musical comedy "Sun Valley Serenade," among many other hit films. He began his Hollywood career as a child actor, then, a script clerk, an assistant director, who worked with, often uncredited, directors John Ford, King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan before he became a successful director starting in 1932 with “Strangers of the Evening.” Born Harry Bruce Humberstone, his mother was an actress and he was educated at Miami Military Academy in Florida. In 1936 he was one of the 28 founders of the Directors Guild of America. Starting with silent movies for 20 th Century-Fox, he did not specialize in one type of movie but directed comedies, dramas, as well as melodramas. Today, he is best know for the 1941 noir film, “Wake Up Screaming” as well as five Charlie Chan films in the 1930s and three Tarzan films in the 1950s starring Gordon Scott. He had a success with the 1942 patriotic war drama “To the Shores of Tripoli.” He had a three-year romantic relationship with beautiful actress Helen Walker, who was involved in a fatal auto accident on the night of New Year's Eve 1946. While driving his borrowed convertible, Walker gave a ride to three hitchhiking soldiers. The car hit the median near Redlands, California, causing Walker to loose control of the car. The convertible flipped several times, sliding 600 feet down the road, and killing 21-year-old Pfc. Robert E. Lee. The other two soldiers, Philip Mercado and Joseph Montaldo, were also injured. Listed in serious condition, Walker obtained a fractured pelvis, collarbone and several toes and was hospitalized for almost two months. He remained at her side during the hospitalization, the pending charges of manslaughter and a civil case of being sued by the survivors in the crash. All charges were eventually dropped and to help Walker recoup her acting career, she was in his next film “Midnight Alley.” By 1949, the couple had gone their separate ways and his career had started to declined. His last film, which he also produced, “Madison Avenue,” was released in 1962. Starting in the 1950s, he was directing television series such as “Sugarfoot,” “The Many Loves of Doby Gillis” and “Daniel Boone.” Besides his long-stay at 20 th Century-Fox, he directed for Columbia Studios, Warner Brothers, and Universal Pictures for a total of 43 movies. Politically, he was a Republican and married at least once, Virginia Barie McWilliams with the couple having a daughter on November 6, 1931. He retired in 1966 and eighteen years later died of pneumonia and according to the L. A. Times obituary, cancer. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the East side of the 1700 block of Vine Street.