Floyd Crosby
| Floyd Crosby | |
|---|---|
| Born | Floyd Delafield Crosby December 12, 1899 West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Ojai, California, United States |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Spouse(s) | Aliph Van Cortland Whitehead (1930–1960) Betty Cormack (1960–1985) |
| Children | Ethan Crosby (1937–1997) David Crosby (born 1941) |
Floyd Delafield Crosby, A.S.C. (December 12, 1899 – September 30, 1985)[1] was an American cinematographer.
Biography
Crosby was born and raised in West Philadelphia, the son of Julia Floyd (née Delafield) and Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby.[2]
In 1930, he married Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead and had two children: David Crosby of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and the late reclusive singer-songwriter Ethan Crosby (1937–1997).
During his career, Floyd Crosby was involved in the cinematography of more than 100 full-length movies. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Tabu. He was also the cinematographer for High Noon (1952), considered to be among his best work, and for which he won a Golden Globe Award. Crosby also worked with B-movie director Roger Corman on several films.
Crosby served as a cinematographer for the U.S. Army Air Corps film wing, and made flight training films in World War II. He left the Air Corps in 1946.
Crosby divorced in 1960, and married Betty Cormack Andrews in the same year. He retired in 1972[2] to Ojai, California, where he died in 1985.
Selected filmography
- Tabu (1931) – Crosby won an Academy Award for cinematography at the fourth Academy Award celebration for his work on this film.
- Mato Grosso: the Great Brazilian Wilderness (1931), likely the first sync sound documentary made in the field, in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
- The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936), a New Deal Resettlement Administration documentary directed by Pare Lorentz.
- It's All True, an unfinished film by Orson Welles, sequence "My Friend Bonito" (1941) directed by Norman Foster
- Traffic with the Devil (1946), a documentary short nominated for an Academy Award.
- Devil Take Us (1952), a documentary short nominated for two Academy Awards.
- 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.
- The Screaming Skull Horror
