Attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Majored in drama at the University of Southern California. Wartime service as a supply sergeant with the Army Air Corps and designed costumes for U.S.O. shows. Post-war, briefly at MGM as apprentice to Irene and Walter Plunkett (1947 to 1949) , specialising in historical costume. Under contract to Universal from 1949 to 1960. With the Disney Organisation after 1961.