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While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning lensman began as an assistant cameraman in 1923 on John Ford's 1924 western saga The Iron Horse. He was then hired by the Famous Players-Lasky Studios in 1927, became a camera operator in 1928 and worked there until 1943. Guffey was hired as a Director of Photography by Columbia Pictures in 1944.
In 1957-58 he served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) for a year, and had been a long standing member.
According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place (1950).
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29 March 1946
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
01 August 1950
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
15 September 1971
In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country and adopting a different persona in each city.
27 October 1965
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison.
24 January 1945
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house.
25 June 1958
A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her?
01 February 1956
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
09 May 1952
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers.
08 October 1961
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement.
13 August 1967
In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
02 December 1949
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
15 November 1950
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients.
04 July 1962
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health.
01 October 1955
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
08 May 1956
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno.
09 April 1959
Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique.
07 May 1927
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
13 June 1951
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
07 May 1969
A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards.
14 September 1969
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.
17 May 1950
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
15 June 1960
In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces.
29 April 1970
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this.
28 August 1953
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
03 March 1948
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
26 January 1955
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider.
01 January 1957
A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.
22 February 1950
Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents.
16 November 1949
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
12 April 1945
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work.
22 December 1967
When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.
24 February 1944
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
25 March 1964
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea.
25 January 1945
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
03 March 1961
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
25 May 1947
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress.
01 October 1958
Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews.
18 February 1966
Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
09 November 1956
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
21 October 1951
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
18 November 1932
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
12 April 1957
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
01 January 1959
This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.
23 August 1957
Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family.
09 March 1967
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
19 March 1955
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster.
26 July 1961
A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father.
04 October 1925
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route.
29 November 1962
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
08 November 1945
Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
22 February 1949
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
22 July 1964
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
02 November 1959
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon.
05 August 1954
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder.
06 August 1969
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood.
04 November 1968
A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
03 September 1954
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft.
26 January 1946
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club.
09 December 1949
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
10 November 1957
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
