Alan Crosland
Frederick Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director.Interested in the theatre, he began acting on stage, appearing in several productions with Shakespearian actress Annie Russell.Crosland began his career in the motion picture industry in 1912 at Edison Studios in The Bronx, New York, where he worked at various jobs for two years until he had learned the business sufficiently well to begin directing short films.It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue.Crosland died in 1936 at the age of 41 as a result of an automobile accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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