Person
John Crawford
Born 13 September 1920 Died 21 September 2010, aged 90 Colfax, Washington, USA TMDB ↗
Burly, handsome and rugged character actor John Crawford appeared in over 200 movies and TV shows combined in a career that spanned over 40 years, usually cast as tough and/or villainous characters.
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The numbers
24age in their first credit on record (1945)
44years on screen and counting
12credits in 1974, their busiest year
191dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Age: 68 Grave Secrets
1989as Homer
Age: 61 The Other Victim
1981as Price
Age: 61 The Boogens
1981as Brian Deering
Age: 60 Elvis and the Beauty Queen
1981as Vernon Presley
Age: 58 The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
1979as Captain Sherick
Age: 58 Lawman Without a Gun
1979as Sgt. Hunt
Age: 58 The Sky Trap
1979as Mark Sanders
Age: 58 Dreamer
1979as Riverboat Captain
Age: 58 Tilt
1979as Mickey
Age: 58 Hard Knocks
1979as Josh
Age: 58 Donovan's Kid
1979as Thunder City Sheriff
Age: 58 Desperate Women
1978
Age: 57 The Two-Five
1978as Capt. Paul Carter
Age: 56 Outlaw Blues
1977as Buzz Cavenaugh
Age: 56 The Enforcer
1976as The Mayor
Age: 55 The Macahans
1976as Hale Crowley
Age: 55 Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
1975as Fred Stoner
Age: 54 Night Moves
1975as Tom Iverson
Age: 54 The Swiss Family Robinson
1975as Nate Bidwell
Age: 54 The Towering Inferno
1974as Callahan
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Age: 54 Strange Homecoming
1974as Winston
Age: 53 Message to My Daughter
1973as Abortionist
Age: 53 Brother, My Song
1973as Dr. Bennet
Age: 53 The Severed Arm
1973as Doctor Sanders
Age: 52 The Poseidon Adventure
1972as Chief Engineer
Age: 51 J.W. Coop
1972as Rancher
Age: 49 The Ravine
1969as Captain Keller
Age: 46 Spring Night, Summer Night
1967as Virgil
Age: 46 Return of the Gunfighter
1967as Butch Cassidy
Age: 45 Duel at Diablo
1966as Clay Dean
Age: 44 I Saw What You Did
1965as Trooper
Age: 44 The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965as Alexander
Age: 44 The Americanization of Emily
1964as Chief Petty Officer Paul Adams
Age: 42 Jason and the Argonauts
1963as Polydeuces (uncredited)
Age: 42 Captain Sindbad
1963as Aram
Age: 42 Come Fly with Me
1963as Co-Pilot
Age: 42 The Devil's Messenger
1962as Donald Powell
Age: 42 The Longest Day
1962as Col. Caffey (uncredited)
Age: 41 The 300 Spartans
1962as Agathon the Spartan Spy
Age: 40 The Long Shadow
1961as Kelly
Age: 40 The Impersonator
1961as Sgt. Jimmy Bradford
Age: 40 Exodus
1960as Capt. Hank Schlosberg
Age: 40 The Man Who Was Nobody
1960as South Africa Smith
Age: 39 Piccadilly Third Stop
1960as Joe Preedy
Age: 39 Hell Is a City
1960as Don Starling
Age: 39 Solomon and Sheba
1959as Joab
Age: 38 John Paul Jones
1959as George Washington
Age: 38 Floods of Fear
1958as Jack Murphy
Age: 37 Orders to Kill
1958as Kimball
Age: 37 Intent to Kill
1958as Boyd
Age: 37 The Key
1958as American Captain
Age: 37 Satan's Satellites
1958as Roth
Age: 36 Confession
1956as Gunman
Age: 33 Battle of Rogue River
1954as Capt. Richard Hillman
Age: 33 Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
1954as Bonnett
Age: 33 Jesse James vs. the Daltons
1954
Age: 33 Trader Tom of the China Seas
1954as Bill Gaines
Age: 33 Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953as King Bradshaw
Age: 33 Prisoners of the Casbah
1953as Guard (uncredited)
Age: 33 Slaves of Babylon
1953as Avil
Age: 33 The Big Heat
1953as Al - Bannion's Brother-in-Law (uncredited)
Age: 33 The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
1953as Captain Kidd
Age: 32 Rebel City
1953as Joe Spencer
Age: 32 Serpent of the Nile
1953as Captain Domitius
Age: 32 Marshal of Cedar Rock
1953as Chris Peters - Henchman
Age: 32 Star of Texas
1953as Texas Ranger Stockton
Age: 32 A Star Shall Rise
1952as Gaspar
Age: 32 Son of Geronimo
1952as Ace Devlin [Chs.1-9]
Age: 32 Zombies of the Stratosphere
1952as Roth
Age: 31 Old Oklahoma Plains
1952as Chuck Ramsey
Age: 31 Blackhawk
1952as Chuck
Age: 31 Actors and Sin
1952as Movie Hero
Age: 31 Northwest Territory
1951as LeBeau
Age: 31 Honeychile
1951as Marvin McKay
Age: 31 The Red Badge of Courage
1951as Soldier (uncredited)
Age: 30 Hollywood Story
1951as 1st Detective (uncredited)
Age: 30 Raton Pass
1951as Sam
Age: 30 Cyrano de Bergerac
1950as Cadet
Age: 30 Union Station
1950as Hackett (uncredited)
Age: 29 Lonely Heart Bandits
1950as Stevedore
Age: 29 Mystery Street
1950as Reporter (uncredited)
Age: 29 The Asphalt Jungle
1950as Reporter (uncredited)
Age: 29 The Invisible Monster
1950as Harris
Age: 29 Radar Patrol vs. Spy King
1949as Sands
Age: 28 Ghost of Zorro
1949as Agent Mulvaney - Ch. 3, 4
Age: 28 Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
1948as Amos Ramsey
Age: 27 Sons of Adventure
1948as George Norton
Age: 27 Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
1948as Danton - Henchman
Age: 25 The Time of Their Lives
1946as Dandy at Party (uncredited)
Age: 25 Without Reservations
1946as Soldier (uncredited)
Age: 24 The Phantom of 42nd Street
1945as John Carraby
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TV credits
Age: 63 Hardcastle and McCormick
1983as Charlie
Age: 62 Knight Rider
1982as Sheriff Moore
Age: 62 Matt Houston
1982 Age: 62 Knight Rider
1982as Mac Thomas
Age: 62 The Powers of Matthew Star
1982as General Tucker
Age: 61 Code Red
1981
Age: 60 Dynasty
1981
Age: 59 Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Age: 58 Friends
1979
Age: 58 From Here to Eternity
1979as Maj. Thompson
Age: 58 Salvage 1
1979
Age: 57 Kaz
1978
Age: 57 The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
Age: 57 The Incredible Hulk
1977as Tom Edler
Age: 56 Eight Is Enough
1977
Age: 56 The Tony Randall Show
1976
Age: 56 Charlie's Angels
1976as Lt. Francona
Age: 55 The Bionic Woman
1976
Age: 55 The Swiss Family Robinson
1975
Age: 54 The Invisible Man
1975as Coner, Prison Guard
Age: 54 Bronk
1975
Age: 54 Police Woman
1974
Age: 54 The Rockford Files
1974as Dr. Kenilworth
Age: 54 The Rockford Files
1974as Christian
Age: 54 Police Woman
1974as Capt. Parks
Age: 54 Police Woman
1974as Captain Parks
Age: 54 Police Woman
1974as Deputy Chief Parks
Age: 54 Police Woman
1974as Chief Parks
Age: 53 Harry O
1974
Age: 53 Little House on the Prairie
1974as Ben Shelby
Age: 53 Rhoda
1974
Age: 52 Police Story
1973
Age: 52 The Bob Newhart Show
1972
Age: 52 The Waltons
1972as Sheriff Ep Bridges
Age: 52 Banacek
1972as Owen Summers
Age: 51 Nichols
1971as Marshall
Age: 51 Nichols
1971as Sgt. Kessler
Age: 48 Land of the Giants
1968
Age: 47 Mannix
1967as Traynor
Age: 46 Hondo
1967
Age: 46 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967as Charlie
Age: 46 Mission: Impossible
1966as Dr. Lubell
Age: 46 Mission: Impossible
1966as Orin Selby
Age: 45 The Time Tunnel
1966as Little John
Age: 45 The Time Tunnel
1966as Major
Age: 45 The Time Tunnel
1966as John Poe
Age: 45 The Time Tunnel
1966as Henderson
Age: 45 Star Trek
1966as Commissioner Ferris
Age: 45 Tarzan
1966
Age: 45 Batman
1966as Printer's Devil
Age: 45 Hogan's Heroes
1965as Captain Hermann
Age: 45 The Wild Wild West
1965 Age: 45 Hogan's Heroes
1965as Captain - Officer #1
Age: 45 Hogan's Heroes
1965as Lieutenant Ritchie
Age: 45 Hogan's Heroes
1965as 1st Gestapo Man
Age: 45 Hogan's Heroes
1965as Gestapo Man
Age: 45 Hogan's Heroes
1965as Gestapo Major
Age: 45 Lost in Space
1965as Dr. Chronos
Age: 45 The Big Valley
1965as Gandy
Age: 45 The Big Valley
1965as Deputy Sheriff Billy Norris
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Age: 44 Profiles in Courage
1964
Age: 44 Daniel Boone
1964as Jeremy Cain
Age: 44 Daniel Boone
1964as Tolliver
Age: 44 Daniel Boone
1964as Press Boker
Age: 43 Another World
1964No poster
Age: 43 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Age: 43 My Favorite Martian
1963
Age: 43 The Fugitive
1963as Sergeant
Age: 42 Combat!
1962as Gunnar
Age: 42 Combat!
1962as Capt. Werner
Age: 39 Danger Man
1960as Dr. Keller
Age: 39 The Twilight Zone
1959as Joe
Age: 39 The Third Man
1959as Simon Baird
Age: 39 Interpol Calling
1959as Kustrinski
Age: 39 Interpol Calling
1959as Keflik
Age: 39 Interpol Calling
1959as Ben Stack
Age: 38 13 Demon Street
1959
Age: 37 Trackdown
1957No poster
Age: 36 State Trooper
1956
Age: 35 Telephone Time
1956
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Hod
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Loy
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Torbert
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Hal Biggs
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Yates
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Drunk
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Pinto
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Amos Strange
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Norman Wilson
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Blanchard
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Hugh Eaton
Age: 34 Gunsmoke
1955as Muller
Age: 34 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
Age: 32 Adventures of Superman
1952as Jack Morrell
Age: 32 Hopalong Cassidy
1952
Age: 30 Boston Blackie
1951as Jim Marcum
Age: 30 The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Age: 30 The Living Christ
1951as Joel
Age: 30 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950No poster
Age: 29 The Cisco Kid
1950as Sheriff Al White