Biography
Floyd Crosby was an American cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his debut feature, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931).
Crosby shot High Noon (1952) for director Fred Zinnemann and won a Golden Globe for the black-and-white cinematography. From the mid-1950s he became the regular director of photography for Roger Corman, working on more than twenty films including House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Raven (1963) and X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963).
He also photographed The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and earlier documentaries such as The River (1937). Crosby served as a cinematographer with the US Army Air Corps during the Second World War before returning to feature work.
