Floyd Crosby

Floyd Crosby

Floyd Delafield Crosby, A.S.C. (December 12 1899 – 30 September 1985) was an award winning cinematographer.

Crosby was born and raised in West Philadelphia, the son of Julia Floyd (née Delafield) and Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby. In 1940, he married Aliph Van Cortland Whitehead and had two children, one of whom is David Crosby of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. He divorced Aliph in 1960 and married Betty Cormack in the same year. He retired in the late 1960s to Ojai, California, where he died in 1985.

Cinematography

During his career, Floyd Crosby was involved in the cinematography of more than 100 full length movies. A vast majority of these films are considered "B-movies".
*"Tabu" (1931) – Crosby won an Academy Award for cinematography at the fourth Academy Award celebration for his work on this film.
*"Traffic with the Devil" (1946)
*"High Noon" (1952) – A western movie, generally considered to be his most contemporarily praised film.
*"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961) – One of several widescreen horror films Crosby shot for director Roger Corman.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005677/ IMDB Entry]


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