Composer, author, pianist and teacher, educated in African, English, and German schools. He was a pianist in music stores and film theatres, and founded piano schools in Africa, He was piano soloist with the Cape Town Symphony, and toured Africa and the USA with his own show "Comedy in Concert". Coming to Hollywood in 1938, he taught music and performed in concerts and on college campuses, on radio and television and in night clubs, and wrote music for films.