Floyd Crosby was an academy award winning cinematographer. He was the director of photography on "The Day The Earth Stood Still." His son, David Crosby, is one of the boys in the park at the beginning of the film.
Crosby’s musical and personal idealism often found him clashing with the other members of The Byrds, and by autumn of 1967 he was unceremoniously fired from the band.
Crosby told BAM magazine at the time, “The kind of telepathic interchange that takes place between these guys is the kind of thing that I have with Nash.
It's astounding.” In this same short season of miracles, Crosby and his wife gave birth to a son, Django, and James and Stacia Raymond presented Crosby with a new granddaughter, Grace.
Crosby was born in Los Angeles on August 14, 1941; the son of Academy Award-winning cinematographer FloydCrosby, he dropped out of drama school to pursue a career in music, touring the folk club circuit and recording as a member of the Les Baxter Balladeers.
Under the auspices of producer Jim Dickson, Crosby cut his first solo session in late 1963; early the following year he formed the Jet Set with Jim McGuinn and Gene Clark, and with the additions of bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke, the group was rechristened the Byrds.
In late 1985 Crosby was sentenced to prison after fleeing the drug rehabilitation clinic he'd entered in lieu of serving out a previous jail term; upon his release the following August, he'd finally conquered his demons, later chronicling the ugly details of his addiction in the fine autobiography {-Long Time Gone}.
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