Carl Krusada(1879-1951)
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
- Additional Crew
Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1879, screenwriter Carl Krusada attended
that city's prestigious Polytechnic Institute and Conservatory of
Music. Emigrating to the US, he studied at Dearborn College in Chicago.
He got into the film business in 1917 as a writer and stayed in it
until the early 1940s, turning out well over 100 screenplays. Krusada
did a lot of work at Universal Pictures during the silent era, but once
sound came in most of the work he got was for minor "B" independent
studios like Monogram and even lower-rung "Z" studios like Reliable,
Cosmopolitan and Aywon, among others. In the 1930s and 1940s he did a
lot of work for shoestring producers
Harry S. Webb at Metropolitan Pictures and
Bernard B. Ray at Reliable Pictures. The
majority of his output was in westerns, but he did the occasional crime
thriller and action picture.
He died, age 71, in 1951.
He died, age 71, in 1951.
