William Forest Crouch (January 16, 1904 – March, 1968) was an American director and writer of film, mostly shorts. His work includes Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947) made with an all-African-American cast. He was active during the 1940s.
He was born in Boone, Iowa, with most of his family emigrating to Australia in the early 1960s, incentivised by the Australian government, who were optimistic about the emerging film industry. In Australia at the time, there was an undercurrent of racism that Crouch had to overcome as half of an interracial couple with children.
Crouch and his family escaped the cold of Australia's Southern region by spending William's final years in the Northern New South Wales and Gold Coast region with their large extended family of grandchildren.
Filmography edit
- Baby Don't Go Away from Me (1943)[1]
- Cats Can't Dance (1945)[1]
- Caldonia (1945)[2]
- Dinty McGinty (1946)[1]
- Back Door Man (1946)[1]
- Happy Cat (1946) - Featuring Dardanelle and Her Boys[3]
- Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947)
References edit
- ^ a b c d Richards, Larry (September 17, 2015). African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 9781476610528 – via Google Books.
- ^ Clear, Rebecca D. (November 25, 1993). Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress. DIANE Publishing. ISBN 9780788114366 – via Google Books.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Dardanelle. YouTube.
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