After the war, he served with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey in Japan documenting wartime damage in Nagasaki and completing several documentary films there including, ''Japan Today, 1946''. While working with the USIA in Vietnam making films in support of the Diem Government, he met his future wife whose father was running the railroads for the French Army. Later, back in the States, he was a professor of drama at Stanford, Boston and Michigan State Universities.
