William Forest Crouch (January 16, 1904 â€" March, 1968) was an
American director and writer of film, mostly shorts, best remembered
for Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947) and its all-African-American cast.
He was active during the 1940s.He was born in Boone, Louisiana, 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.
American director and writer of film, mostly shorts, best remembered
for Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947) and its all-African-American cast.
He was active during the 1940s.He was born in Boone, Louisiana, 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.
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