Floyd Crosby

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Floyd Crosby (born December 12, 1899 in New York City , † September 30, 1985 in Ojai , California ; actually Floyd Delafield Crosby ) was an American cameraman .

Live and act

Crosby initially worked in the cotton industry and on the New York Stock Exchange . After attending the New York Institute of Photography , he began working as a photographer in the mid-1920s and switched to the film business in the early 1930s and became a cameraman. In 1927, as a photographer and cameraman, Crosby accompanied the researcher William Beebe on his trip to Haiti. In 1931 Crosby was hired by Robert Flaherty , with whom he had previously worked, and FW Murnau as cameraman for the South Seas drama Tabu . For his performance, Crosby was awarded an Oscar for best camera . After filming in the South Seas, Crosby filmed for a Brazil expedition and specialized in documentaries. Crosby directed the camera and co-directed the documentary Matto Grosso , published in 1933 . In 1940 Crosby married Aliph Van Cortland Whitehead, and a year later they had their son David Crosby , who would later become a rock musician . During the Second World War , Crosby joined the US Air Force and made training films for pilots for the Air Transport Command . In 1946, Crosby left the Air Force and returned to the film business. After taking the camera for a few other documentaries, Fred Zinnemann's Western Twelve O'clock followed in 1952 , for which Crosby was awarded a Golden Globe for best black and white camera .

In 1954, Crosby began working with Roger Corman . Starting with the western Five Revolvers Go West , which was filmed in nine days in 1954 , to the horror film The Torture Chamber of the Witch Hunter , which was released in 1963 , 21 films were made, of various genres and mostly B-movies , directed by Cormans with Crosby as cameraman. In particular, Corman's Edgar Allan Poe film adaptations benefited from Crosby's flexible, yet faster camera work, which set the tone for the development of horror films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1960, Crosby divorced and married Betty Cormack that same year.

In addition to his work for film, Crosby led the camera in television series such as 1955 for 26 episodes of TV Reader's Digest and 1960 for Wanted: Dead or Alive . In the early 1970s, Crosby retired in Ojai, California.

Awards

  • 1931: Awarded the Oscar for taboo .
  • 1953: Awarded the Golden Globe for twelve noon .

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Crosby, Floyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crosby, Floyd D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1985
Place of death Ojai , USA