D'entre a suya filmografía como actor, se puet destacar as cintas Mademoiselle Docteur (1937, Georg Wilhelm Pabst), La Grande Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir), Five Graves to Cairo (1943, Billy Wilder), The Mask of Diijon (1946, Lew Landers) u Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder). D'entre a suya filmografía como director, cal destacar as cintas Blind Husbands (1919, con Sam de Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland y Fay Holderness), The Devil's Pass Key (1920, con Sam de Grasse, Mae Busch y Maude George), Foolish Wives (1922, con Erich von Stroheim, Miss DuPont y Maude George), Merry-Go-Round (1923, con Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Edith Yorke y Dale Fuller), Greed (1924, con Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Tempe Pigott, Sylvia Ashton, Chester Conklin, Joan Standing y Jack Curtis), The Merry Widow (1925, con Mae Murray, John Gilbert y Roy D'Arcy), The Wedding March (1928, con Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, George Fawcett, George Nichols, ZaSu Pitts y Maude George), u Queen Kelly (1929, con Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen y Tully Marshall).