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Alan Crosland
Highest Rated: 100% Don Juan (1926)
Lowest Rated: 78% The Jazz Singer (1927)
Birthday: Aug 10, 1894
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Best known for directing two sound barrier-breaking films; "Don Juan" (1926), with synchronized music, and "The Jazz Singer" (1927), the first "talkie." Married to silent screen leading lady Elaine Hammerstein, whom he directed in several films, and father of director-editor Alan Crosland Jr.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Some of the Greatest | Director | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The White Cockatoo | Director | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Impersonation | Director | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midnight Alibi | Director | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Personality Kid | Director | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Massacre | Director | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Case of the Howling Dog | Director | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Silver Lining | Director | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captain Thunder | Director | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Big Boy | Director | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Viennese Nights | Director | - | 1930 |
| 82% | No Score Yet | Song of the Flame | Director | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | General Crack | Director | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On With the Show | Director | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glorious Betsy | Director | - | 1928 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Old San Francisco | Director | - | 1927 |
| 78% | 56% | The Jazz Singer | Director | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | The Beloved Rogue | Director | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | When a Man Loves | Director | - | 1927 |
| 100% | 60% | Don Juan | Director | - | 1926 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Under the Red Robe | Director | - | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Everybody's Sweetheart | Director | - | 1920 |
| 89% | No Score Yet | The Flapper | Director | - | 1920 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Unbeliever | Director | - | 1918 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Apple-Tree Girl | Director | - | 1917 |