Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws
2019 · Movie
Johnny Crawford
1946-03-26
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Los Angeles, California, USA
John Ernest Crawford (March 26, 1946 – April 29, 2021) was an American actor, singer, and musician. He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer. At age 12, Crawford rose to prominence playing Mark McCain in the ABC Western series, The Rifleman. Crawford was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age 13 for his work on The Rifleman, which aired from 1958 to 1963. Disney started out with 24 original Mouseketeers. However, at the end of the first season, the studio reduced the number to 12, and Crawford was released from his contract. His first important break as an actor followed with the title role in a Lux Video Theatre production of "Little Boy Lost", a live NBC broadcast on March 15, 1956. He also appeared in the popular Western series The Lone Ranger, in 1956, in one of the few color episodes of that series. Following that performance, the young actor worked steadily with many seasoned actors and directors. Freelancing for two and one-half years, he accumulated almost 60 television credits, including featured roles in three episodes of NBC's The Loretta Young Show and an appearance as Manuel in, "I Am an American", an episode of the syndicated crime drama Sheriff of Cochise. He starred as Bobby Adams in the 1958 drama "Courage of Black Beauty". By the spring of 1958, he had also performed 14 demanding roles in live teleplays for NBC's Matinee Theatre, appeared on CBS's sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve, in the Wagon Train episode "The Sally Potter Story" (in which Martin Milner also appeared) and on the syndicated series, Crossroads, Sheriff of Cochise, and Whirlybirds, and made three pilots of TV series. The third pilot, which was made as an episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, was picked up by ABC and the first season of The Rifleman began filming in July 1958. Crawford had a brief career as a recording artist in the 1950s and 1960s. He continued to act on television and in film as an adult. Beginning in 1992, Crawford led the California-based Johnny Crawford Orchestra, a vintage dance orchestra that performed at special events.
Filmography
The Thirteenth Floor
1999 · Movie
as Singer
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Vicki!
1992 · TV Show
as Self
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991 · Movie
as Mark McCain
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989 · Movie
as Musician
Crossbow: The Movie
1989 · Movie
as Prince Ignatius
Paradise
1988 · TV Show
as McKay
Crossbow
1987 · TV Show
as Prince Ignatius
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · TV Show
as Noah Paisley
The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1983 · Movie
as Masket
The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1983 · TV Show
as Masket
Macbeth
1981 · Movie
as Seyton
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Movie
as Self
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976 · Movie
as Slim
The Shootist
1976 · Movie
as Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
Sonic Boom
1974 · Movie
as Charlton Heston
The inbreaker
1974 · Movie
The Naked Ape
1973 · Movie
as Lee
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
1970 · Movie
as Broncho Billy
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · TV Show
as Private Jerry Franklin
Lancer
1968 · TV Show
El Dorado
1966 · Movie
as Luke MacDonald
Village of the Giants
1965 · Movie
as Horsey
The Restless Ones
1965 · Movie
as David Winton
Indian Paint
1965 · Movie
as Nishko
Branded
1965 · TV Show
as Deputy Sheriff Clay Holden
Mr. Novak
1963 · TV Show
as JoJo Rizzo, USSR - United Nations Assembly
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One Man's Challenge
1962 · Movie
as Self
Mister Ed
1961 · TV Show
Rawhide
1959 · TV Show
as Aaron Bolt
The Space Children
1958 · Movie
as Ken Brewster
The Donna Reed Show
1958 · TV Show
as Victor
The Rifleman
1958 · TV Show
as Mark McCain
Courage of Black Beauty
1957 · Movie
as Bobby Adams
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV Show
Wagon Train
1957 · TV Show
as Jimmy Bennett
Trackdown
1957 · TV Show
as Eric Paine
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956 · Movie
as Italian Boy with Groceries (uncredited)
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956 · TV Show
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · TV Show
as Billy Prescott, Mark McCain
Telephone Time
1956 · TV Show
The Mickey Mouse Club
1955 · TV Show
as Self
The Millionaire
1955 · TV Show
as Wally
Matinee Theater
1955 · TV Show
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · TV Show
as Self
Letter to Loretta
1953 · TV Show
as Freddy, Arthur Mullen, Bobby Wright
Cavalcade of America
1952 · TV Show
as Billy Brandon (as a boy)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · TV Show
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Lux Video Theatre
1950 · TV Show
as Jerry, Jean
The Lone Ranger
1949 · TV Show
as Tommy McQueen
