Died 1986-04-26.
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Broderick Crawford
William Broderick Crawford was an American actor. Known for his "bulldog face and barking voice", he was initially a character actor often cast tough-guy or slob roles, but gained widespread acclaim for his portrayal of Willie Stark in the 1949 film adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. His performance earned him both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. He was late…
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entertainment · American actor (1911–1986) · actor · stage actor · television actor · film actor · also Broderick Crawford, William Broderick Crawford, Brod Crawford, Crawford
Born 9 December 1911 · Died 26 April 1986 · Q182349
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1986· 1 entry
1979· 1 entry
Crawford had a cameo in the film A Little Romance, and his last role was as a film producer who is murdered in a 1982 episode of Simon & Simon
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1977· 1 entry
Wore the trademark fedora and black suit as guest host of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol
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1961· 1 entry
But lasted only one season, after which Crawford returned to motion pictures, most notably in The Oscar (1966) and The Texican (1966)
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1955· 2 entries
Crawford took on the starring role of Rollo Lamar, the most violent of convicts in Big House, U
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Television producer Frederick Ziv of ZIV Television Productions offered Crawford the lead role in the police drama Highway Patrol, which dramatized law enforcement activities of the California Highway Patrol (CHP)
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1950· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for All the King's Men (1950).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for All the King's Men (1950).
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1949· 1 entry
Crawford was cast as Willie Stark, a character inspired by and closely patterned after the life of Louisiana politician Huey Long, in All the King's Men, based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren
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1944· 1 entry
As a sergeant and was one of two announcers for the Glenn Miller Band's weekly program I Sustain the Wings
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1937· 1 entry
As Lennie in Of Mice and Men on Broadway
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-12-09.
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