- Before entering the movie business, Cruze had worked selling "snake oil" in a patent medicine show.
- At his peak Cruze earned $6000 a week.
- Was of Danish descent.
- Considered Beggar on Horseback (1925) his best work.
- With Marguerite Snow, a daughter, Julie Jane.
- Interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California, USA, in the Abbey of the Psalms foyer, niche #211, tier 2.
- Brother of actress May Cruze.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 159-163. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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