He is the TV producer-director of the award-winning, Emmy-nominated TV musical documentary "A Duke Named Ellington" and the Los Angeles Emmy-award winner (1985) "K*I*D*S". He lives most of the year in Scandinavia.
He was founder and president of Meta/4 Productions, Inc., a California company he formed in 1975, through which he produced and/or directed more than 100 documentary films and television shorts for industry and the federal government.
He was the world's first black TV anchor newscaster (WBZ-TV Eyewitness News, Boston, Massachusetts, Group W, Westinghouse, 1965-68).
President of Council For Positive Images, a non-profit organization he formed in 1979.
Sometimes appears at science fiction conventions where he sells autographed pictures of himself.