(William is said to have died as an indirect result of copying Harry Houdini's famous illusion featuring an escape from a tank of water.)
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He worked with Alfred Hitchcock on his early films, including Blackmail, Britain's first talkie, and is credited as screenwriter with "The Guns of Loos" 1928 and "The Lady From the Sea", 1929.
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