Productor de films realitzats per Fleischer, Robson, Zinnemann i altres, posteriorment dirigí films sobre temes polèmics: The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1966), Oklahoma Crude (1972), The Runner Stumbles (1979), etc.