Floyd Crosby(1899-1985)
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Floyd Delafield Crosby was born in 1899 to Fredrick Van Schoonhoven
Crosby (1860-1920) and Julia Floyd Delafield (1874-1952). Floyd had one
sibling, Katherine Van Rensselaer (Gregory). Floyd married Aliph Van
Cortland Whitehead in 1940 and they had two children, Floyd Delafield
Crosby (Ethan) in 1936 and David Crosby in
1940. Floyd and Aliph were divorced in 1960 and Floyd married Betty
Cormack the same year. During World War II Crosby shot training films
for pilots learning air routes and landing patterns all over the world
(these films are very difficult to find today and do not carry
credits). Crosby left the military as a major in 1946. He enjoyed
working on Hollywood "B" movies and shot many of them in the 1950s and
1960s, often for director Roger Corman. In the late 1960s he retired to live with his wife Betty in Ojai, CA. He
passed away in 1986. More information about Floyd and his relationship
with his family is available in his son David's autobiography "Long
Time Gone".
