William Luff

Birth : 1872-05-31, London, England, UK

Death : 1960-03-15

Movies

Designing Women
Cinematography
Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."
Tyneside Story
Cinematography
A dramatised account produced for the Ministry of Information of the re-opening during World War Two of the Tyneside shipyards closed down during the Depression.
Clyde-Built
Cinematography
A short documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde.
London Scrapbook
Cinematography
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
The Vicar of Bray
Director of Photography
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
A Romance in Flanders
Cinematography
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger
A Romance in Flanders
Camera Operator
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger
Juggernaut
Director of Photography
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
Eliza Comes to Stay
Director of Photography
A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards
Scrooge
Director of Photography
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Department Store
Director of Photography
The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
The Last Journey
Director of Photography
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Death on the Set
Director of Photography
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
Annie, Leave the Room!
Director of Photography
British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Bella Donna
Director of Photography
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
The Lash
Director of Photography
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
This Week of Grace
Assistant Camera
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
The Roof
Camera Operator
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
The Lodger
Director of Photography
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Condemned to Death
Director of Photography
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
Frail Women
Director of Photography
An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
The Glorious Adventure
King Charles II
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.