Career
He was the most successful Australian film executive of his time. Daff was born in Melbourne an joined the Melbourne office of Universal Pictures at age 18. He took what were probably the first aerial newsreel pictures of New Guinea, in about 1922.
In 1935 he visited the Universal Studios in Hollywood. In 1949 he became President of Universal International Films, the overseas subsidiary of Universal Pictures Company. He came Exective Vice President of Universal Pictures Company in 1952.
He retired in 1958. He was the topic of a 1975 documentary Al Daff.