He abandoned his 26-year career as a movie cameraman in the 1980s and went into real estate after he was unable to get work because he was branded a troublemaker for cooperating with the prosecutors of
John Landis,
George Folsey Jr.,
Dan Allingham,
Paul Stewart, and
Dorcey Wingo, who were charged with involuntary manslaughter in a helicopter crash that killed
Vic Morrow,
My-ca Dinh Le, and
Renee Chen, on the
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) set.