- His ex-wife, actress-cum-newswoman Lisa Howard, who appeared in several of his 1950s films, committed suicide just two months before his death from cancer.
- He was the adoptive stepfather of popular fantasy novelist Raymond E. Feist (b. 1945), best known for his "Riftwar Cycle".
- Son of MGM sales executive Felix F. Feist (1884-1936).
- Educated at Columbia University.
- American director, in Hollywood from 1928. From 1930-43 he worked at MGM's short subjects department turning out Pete Smith specialties among numerous other "featurettes". In 1953 he moved to Universal and then to RKO as a B-movie director. His best films from this period are The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947), The Big Trees (1952) and Donovan's Brain (1953). He subsequently worked in television.
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