- Floyd Crosby
Floyd Delafield Crosby,
A.S.C. (December 12 1899 –30 September 1985 ) was an award winningcinematographer .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 isDavid Crosby ofThe Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. He divorced Aliph in 1960 and marriedBetty Cormack in the same year. He retired in the late 1960s toOjai, 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 forcinematography at the fourth Academy Award celebration for his work on this film.
*"Traffic with the Devil" (1946)
*"High Noon " (1952) – Awestern movie , generally considered to be his most contemporarily praised film.
*"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961) – One of severalwidescreen horror film s Crosby shot for directorRoger Corman .External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005677/ IMDB Entry]
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