Originally trained for a life on the seas at Maritime School and was a fully qualified third mate by the time his family moved from New York to Southern California. Fowler then changed career paths and learned film editing at 20th Century Fox.
[on I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)] I guess the other producers must have been spending just about the same amount of money that we were, but their pictures were such shit. I did not try to make just an exploitation picture. I was trying to do something with a little substance to it.