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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 13, 1920
Died
September 21, 2010
Place of Birth
Colfax, Washington, USA
Also Known As
- Johnny Crawford
- Cleve Allen Richardson
- Cleve Richardson
- Jack Crawford
- جان کرافورد
John Crawford
1.3 Popularity
Biography
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. Crawford was born Cleve Richardson on September 13, 1920, in Colfax, Washington. He was discovered by a Warner Bros. scout while attending the University of Washington's School of Drama. Although he failed his screen test, Crawford nonetheless joined RKO as a laborer. He then got a job building sets at Circle Theater in Los Angeles, and eventually persuaded the producers to cast him in some of their plays. He was soon signed to Columbia Pictures to act in secondary roles in westerns. In the late 1950s he graduated to bigger parts in such films as Ordre de tuer (1958), La clé (1958) and Un homme pour le bagne (1960), all of which were made in the UK. Crawford returned to America in the early 1960s and began a prolific career in both movies and TV series, up until 1986. His most memorable film roles include the ill-fated chief engineer inL'aventure du Poséidon (1972), the hearty Tom Iverson in La fugue (1975), the bumbling mayor of San Francisco in L'inspecteur ne renonce jamais (1976), hard-nosed police chief Buzz Cavanaugh in Un couple en fuite (1977) and amiable old mine hand Brian Deerling in The Boogens (1981). John had recurring parts as Sheriff Ep Bridges inLa famille des collines (1971) and Capt. Parks on Sergent Anderson (1974). Among the many TV shows he made guest appearances in are The Lone Ranger (1949), Superman(1952), Les espions (1965), La quatrième dimension (1959), Les incorruptibles (1959),La grande caravane (1957), Le fugitif (1963), Star Trek (1966), Perdus dans l'espace(1965), Bonanza (1959), Stalag 13 (1965), Mission impossible (1966), Gunsmoke(1955), Super Jaimie (1976), Dallas (1978) and Dynastie (1981). Crawford died at age 90 following complications from a stroke on September 21, 2010, in Thousand Oaks, California. He's survived by his ex-wife Ann Wakefield, four daughters and two grandchildren. - IMDb Mini Biography
Known For
6.5
Self (archive footage)
The World of Hammer
1994
4.1
Homer
Grave Secrets
1989
6.4
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983
7.5
Sheriff Moore
Knight Rider
1982
7.5
Mac Thomas
Knight Rider
1982
6.2
Matt Houston
1982
5.0
General Tucker
The Powers of Matthew Star
1982
0.0
Price
The Other Victim
1981
5.4
Brian Deering
The Boogens
1981
5.5
Code Red
1981
Credits
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Grave Secrets
as Homer
1989
4.1
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983
6.4
Knight Rider
as Sheriff Moore
1982
7.5
Knight Rider
as Mac Thomas
1982
7.5
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
The Powers of Matthew Star
as General Tucker
1982
5.0
The Other Victim
as Price
1981
0.0
The Boogens
as Brian Deering
1981
5.4
Code Red
1981
5.5
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
as Vernon Presley
1981
3.3
Dynasty
1981
6.4
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
as Captain Sherick
1979
6.5
Lawman Without a Gun
as Sgt. Hunt
1979
0.0
The Sky Trap
as Mark Sanders
1979
0.0
Dreamer
as Riverboat Captain
1979
5.3
Hard Knocks
as Josh
1979
3.0
Tilt
as Mickey
1979
5.0
Friends
1979
5.0
From Here to Eternity
as Maj. Thompson
1979
6.8
Salvage 1
1979
6.4
Donovan's Kid
as Thunder City Sheriff
1979
6.0
Desperate Women
1978
1.0
Kaz
1978
5.0
The Two-Five
as Capt. Paul Carter
1978
0.0
The Amazing Spider-Man
1978
6.2
The Incredible Hulk
as Tom Edler
1977
7.2
Outlaw Blues
as Buzz Cavenaugh
1977
4.2
Eight Is Enough
1977
6.1
The Enforcer
as The Mayor
1976
6.7
The Tony Randall Show
1976
6.2
Charlie's Angels
as Lt. Francona
1976
6.7
The Macahans
as Hale Crowley
1976
6.7
The Bionic Woman
1976
6.9
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
as Fred Stoner
1975
0.0
The Swiss Family Robinson
1975
6.2
Night Moves
as Tom Iverson
1975
6.7
The Invisible Man
as Coner, Prison Guard
1975
6.1
Bronk
1975
6.2
The Swiss Family Robinson
as Nate Bidwell
1975
6.0
The Towering Inferno
as Callahan
1974
7.0
🎬
Strange Homecoming
as Winston
1974
8.0
The Rockford Files
as Dr. Kenilworth
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
as Christian
1974
7.6
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Police Woman
as Capt. Parks
1974
6.2
Police Woman
as Captain Parks
1974
6.2
Police Woman
as Deputy Chief Parks
1974
6.2
Harry O
1974
4.6
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
Rhoda
1974
6.2
Message to My Daughter
as Abortionist
1973
7.0
Brother, My Song
as Dr. Bennet
1973
0.0
The Severed Arm
as Doctor Sanders
1973
4.7
Police Story
1973
6.9
The Poseidon Adventure
as Chief Engineer
1972
7.1
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
7.5
The Waltons
as Sheriff Ep Bridges
1972
7.2
Banacek
as Owen Summers
1972
8.6
J.W. Coop
as Rancher
1972
5.1
Nichols
as Marshall
1971
5.0
Nichols
as Sgt. Kessler
1971
5.0
The Ravine
as Captain Keller
1969
7.0
Land of the Giants
1968
6.7
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Mannix
as Traynor
1967
6.7
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Charlie
1967
6.2
Hondo
1967
6.5
Spring Night, Summer Night
as Virgil
1967
6.5
Return of the Gunfighter
as Butch Cassidy
1967
6.1
Mission: Impossible
as Dr. Lubell
1966
7.6
Mission: Impossible
as Orin Selby
1966
7.6
The Time Tunnel
as Little John
1966
7.6
The Time Tunnel
as Major
1966
7.6
The Time Tunnel
as Henderson
1966
7.6
The Time Tunnel
as John Poe
1966
7.6
Star Trek
as Commissioner Ferris
1966
8.0
Tarzan
1966
6.7
Duel at Diablo
as Clay Dean
1966
6.3
Batman
as Printer's Devil
1966
7.3
Hogan's Heroes
as Captain Hermann
1965
7.5
Hogan's Heroes
as Captain - Officer #1
1965
7.5
Hogan's Heroes
as Lieutenant Ritchie
1965
7.5
Hogan's Heroes
as 1st Gestapo Man
1965
7.5
Hogan's Heroes
as Gestapo Man
1965
7.5
Hogan's Heroes
as Gestapo Major
1965
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965
7.6
Lost in Space
as Dr. Chronos
1965
7.1
The Big Valley
as Gandy
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Deputy Sheriff Billy Norris
1965
6.1
I Saw What You Did
as Trooper
1965
6.2
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Alexander
1965
6.4
🎬
Profiles in Courage
1964
5.0
The Americanization of Emily
as Chief Petty Officer Paul Adams
1964
6.6
Daniel Boone
as Jeremy Cain
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Tolliver
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Press Boker
1964
7.0
Another World
1964
5.2
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
My Favorite Martian
1963
5.9
The Fugitive
as Sergeant
1963
7.2
Jason and the Argonauts
as Polydeuces (uncredited)
1963
7.2
Captain Sindbad
as Aram
1963
4.9
Come Fly with Me
as Co-Pilot
1963
4.1
The Devil's Messenger
as Donald Powell
1962
4.5
Combat!
as Gunnar
1962
7.7
Combat!
as Capt. Werner
1962
7.7
The Longest Day
as Col. Caffey (uncredited)
1962
7.6
The 300 Spartans
as Agathon the Spartan Spy
1962
6.4
The Long Shadow
as Kelly
1961
0.0
The Impersonator
as Sgt. Jimmy Bradford
1961
5.6
Exodus
as Capt. Hank Schlosberg
1960
6.7
The Man Who Was Nobody
as South Africa Smith
1960
7.0
Danger Man
1960
7.3
Piccadilly Third Stop
as Joe Preedy
1960
6.5
Hell Is a City
as Don Starling
1960
6.5
Solomon and Sheba
as Joab
1959
6.4
The Twilight Zone
as Joe
1959
8.5
The Third Man
as Simon Baird
1959
7.1
Interpol Calling
as Kustrinski
1959
6.7
Interpol Calling
as Keflik
1959
6.7
Interpol Calling
as Ben Stack
1959
6.7
John Paul Jones
as George Washington
1959
5.9
13 Demon Street
1959
8.0
Floods of Fear
as Jack Murphy
1958
6.7
Orders to Kill
as Kimball
1958
7.2
Intent to Kill
as Boyd
1958
4.4
The Key
as American Captain
1958
6.0
Satan's Satellites
as Roth
1958
4.5
Trackdown
1957
6.4
Confession
as Gunman
1956
0.0
🎬
State Trooper
1956
5.0
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
Gunsmoke
as Hod
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Loy
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Torbert
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Hal Biggs
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Drunk
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Yates
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Pinto
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Amos Strange
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Norman Wilson
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Blanchard
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Hugh Eaton
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Muller
1955
6.6
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
6.9
Battle of Rogue River
as Capt. Richard Hillman
1954
5.7
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
as Bonnett
1954
5.4
Jesse James vs. the Daltons
1954
5.5
Trader Tom of the China Seas
as Bill Gaines
1954
0.0
Secret of Outlaw Flats
as King Bradshaw
1953
0.0
Prisoners of the Casbah
as Guard (uncredited)
1953
5.4
Slaves of Babylon
as Avil
1953
4.7
The Big Heat
as Al - Bannion's Brother-in-Law (uncredited)
1953
7.7
The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
as Captain Kidd
1953
3.8
Rebel City
as Joe Spencer
1953
5.0
Serpent of the Nile
as Captain Domitius
1953
7.0
Marshal of Cedar Rock
as Chris Peters - Henchman
1953
5.5
Star of Texas
as Texas Ranger Stockton
1953
0.0
A Star Shall Rise
as Gaspar
1952
0.0
Son of Geronimo
as Ace Devlin [Chs.1-9]
1952
0.0
Zombies of the Stratosphere
as Roth
1952
4.8
Adventures of Superman
as Jack Morrell
1952
6.6
Hopalong Cassidy
1952
5.1
Old Oklahoma Plains
as Chuck Ramsey
1952
5.0
Blackhawk
as Chuck
1952
6.0
Actors and Sin
as Movie Hero
1952
5.2
Northwest Territory
as LeBeau
1951
5.0
Honeychile
as Marvin McKay
1951
6.0
The Red Badge of Courage
as Soldier (uncredited)
1951
6.4
Boston Blackie
as Jim Marcum
1951
4.0
Hollywood Story
as 1st Detective (uncredited)
1951
6.6
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
4.5
Raton Pass
as Sam
1951
4.6
The Living Christ
as Joel
1951
5.0
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Cadet
1950
6.8
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
7.1
Union Station
as Hackett (uncredited)
1950
6.4
🎬
The Cisco Kid
as Sheriff Al White
1950
5.9
Lonely Heart Bandits
as Stevedore
1950
6.5
Mystery Street
as Reporter (uncredited)
1950
6.7
The Asphalt Jungle
as Reporter (uncredited)
1950
7.5
The Invisible Monster
as Harris
1950
4.4
Radar Patrol vs. Spy King
as Sands
1949
5.0
Ghost of Zorro
as Agent Mulvaney - Ch. 3, 4
1949
4.0
Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
as Amos Ramsey
1948
6.0
Sons of Adventure
as George Norton
1948
0.0
Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
as Danton - Henchman
1948
6.0
The Time of Their Lives
as Dandy at Party (uncredited)
1946
7.1
Without Reservations
as Soldier (uncredited)
1946
6.2
The Phantom of 42nd Street
as John Carraby
1945
4.5