Born in Peoria, Illinois, Vogel entered the film world as an editor for Universal Pictures, cutting titles such as Mystery Submarine, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, The Man from the Alamo, and Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, while also earning an Air Medal for completing fifty combat missions as a B-29 commander over Japan. He shifted to directing in 1956 with the sci-fi feature The Mol…
