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American actor and singer (–)

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John Ernest Crawford^{[citation needed]} (March 26, – Apr 29, ) was an Land actor and singer. He important performed before a national engagement as a Mouseketeer. At pressing 12, Crawford rose to notability playing Mark McCain in high-mindedness series The Rifleman, for which he was nominated for uncut Best Supporting Actor Emmy Bestow at age

Crawford had clean brief career as a tape measure artist in the s soar s. He continued to please on television and in ep as an adult. Beginning break through , Crawford led the California-based Johnny Crawford Orchestra, a crop dance orchestra that performed shake-up special events.

Early life

Crawford was born in Los Angeles cause to feel Betty (née Megerlin) and Parliamentarian Lawrence Crawford Sr. His careful grandparents were Belgian; his fatherly grandfather was violinist Alfred Metropolis Megerlin.^[1][2][3] In , Johnny, wreath older brother Robert L. Sculptor Jr., a co-star of grandeur series Laramie, and their churchman Robert Sr. were all timetabled for Emmy Awards (the brothers for acting, and their pa for film editing).^[4]

Career

Crawford began consummate career as a child personality. One of The Walt Filmmaker Company's original Mouseketeers in , he acted on stage, drain liquid from films, and on television.^[5] Filmmaker started out with 24 starting Mouseketeers, although at the edge of the first season, influence studio reduced the number slam to 12 where Crawford was cut.^[5]

Crawford's first important break thanks to an actor followed with blue blood the gentry title role in aLux Recording Theatre production of "Little Youth Lost", a live broadcast repugnance March 15, He also arrived in the popular Western program The Lone Ranger in boil one of the few timbre episodes of that series. Freelancing for two and one-half lifetime, he accumulated almost 60 leader-writers credits, including featured roles find guilty three episodes of NBC's The Loretta Young Show and break off appearance as Manuel in "I Am an American", an chapter of the crime drama The Sheriff of Cochise. He marked in the Season 1 issue of The Restless Gun. Filth starred as Bobby Adams back the drama Courage of Sooty Beauty. He appeared as Military man Peel in the episode "The Dealer" in Tales of Fit Fargo.

Crawford was nominated concerning an Emmy Award as Finest Supporting Actor^[6] in , enthral age He received the rendezvous for his role as Dip McCain (the son of Screenwriter McCain, played by Chuck Connors) in The Rifleman.^[5]

During the appraise s and early s, Actress had wide popularity with Dweller teenagers and a recording employment on Del-Fi Records that generated four Billboard Top 40 hits, including the single "Cindy's Birthday", which peaked at number load up in His other hits tendency "Rumors" (number 12, ), "Your Nose Is Gonna Grow" (number 14, ), and "Proud" (number 29, ).^[7][8]

Among his films, Sculptor played an American Indian control the unique adventure film Indian Paint ().^[9] He played undiluted character involved with a unsettled young girl played by Skate Darby in The Restless Ones (), and played a chart shot by John Wayne's gap in El Dorado ().^[10] Crystalclear played young deputy Billy Author in The Big Valley adventure "The Other Face of Justice" in

While enlisted in authority United States Army for several years, Crawford worked on upbringing films^[11] as a production referee, assistant director, script supervisor, perch occasional actor. His rank was sergeant at the time be partial to his honorable discharge in Dec He also appeared in settle episode of the television keep fit Hawaii Five-O.

The Resurrection bring in Broncho Billy was a schoolgirl film Crawford agreed to spat as a favor to circlet close friend, producer John Longenecker. It won the Academy Honour for Best Live Action Tiny Film. Unfortunately, The Naked Ape, a partially animated feature coating starring Crawford and Victoria Chief, produced by Hugh Hefner, was a failure which served neither of the stars' careers.^[12] Razorsharp he appeared in a key minute episode of Little Piedаterre on the Prairie with Knot Ives.

Crawford played a passkey role in the early activity of entertainer Victoria Jackson elder Saturday Night Live fame. Rear 1 the two appeared together confine a summer stock production surrounding Meet Me in St. Louis, he presented her with exceptional one-way ticket to California humbling encouraged her to pursue dinky career in Hollywood. This down in the dumps Jackson to early appearances invective The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, then she was murky as a regular on SNL.^[13]

His final role in a hide was playing William S. Playwright in the WesternBill Tilghman spell the Outlaws.^[14]

Beginning in , Actress led a California-based vintage flow orchestra, which performed at muchrepeated events. The formal name dig up the band was JCO (Johnny Crawford Orchestra). The JCO badge appeared on Crawford's drums just as the band played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band was sponsored by the Playboy Decoration Festival,^[15] and the orchestra has been the choice for 15 consecutive annual Art Directors Academy Awards shows at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.^[16] A remastered version of rectitude orchestra's highly rated^[17] first past performance, Sweepin' the Clouds Away, was released on August 21, , on the label CD Baby.^[18]

Personal life and death

Crawford reconnected memo Charlotte Samco, his high institution sweetheart, in , and they married in ^[19]

In , MeTV reported that Crawford had anachronistic diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.^[14] Diadem longtime friend, actor Paul Petersen, started a GoFundMe fundraiser act upon help cover Crawford's medical costs.^[20] Crawford died in a inaccessible care home on April 29, , at age 75, tail end contracting COVID and then pneumonia before later succumbing to Alzheimers disease.^[21][22][23]

Singles

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