Johnny Crawford

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John Ernest Crawford (born March 26, 1946) is an American actor, singer, and guitarist.

Crawford rose to fame in the ABC Western series The Rifleman, which aired from 1958 to 1963, as Mark McCain, the son of Lucas McCain (played by Chuck Connors).

Crawford appeared first as a Mouseketeer before a national audience.

Early life

Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, and the son of Betty (née Megerlin) and Robert Lawrence Crawford Sr. Johnny, his older brother Robert L. Crawford Jr., a co-star of the film Laramie, and their father Robert Sr. were all nominated for Emmy Awards in 1959 (the brothers for acting and film editing). He was of Russian-Jewish, German, and English descent.

Personal life and death

Crawford reconnected with Charlotte Samco, his high school sweetheart, in 1990, and the pair married in 1995.

Crawford had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2019, according to MeTV. GoFundMe was started by actor Paul Petersen to help Crawford cover his medical expenses. Crawford died in a personal care home on April 29, 2021, at the age of 75, after suffering with COVID-19 and pneumonia before succumbing to Alzheimer's disease.

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Career

Crawford began his career as a child actor. In 1955, one of the Walt Disney Company's original Mouseketeers, he appeared on stage, in films, and on television.

We started out with 24 original Mouseketeers, but the number was reduced to 12, and Crawford was cut at the end of the first season. In a Lux Video Theatre production of "Little Boy Lost," a live broadcast on March 15, 1956, he got his first significant break as an actor followed by his title role. He appeared in the popular Western series The Lone Ranger in 1956, in one of the few color episodes of that series. Following that success, the young actor continued to work with a number of veteran actors and directors. He accumulated nearly 60 television credits, including featured appearances in three episodes of NBC's The Loretta Young Show and an appearance as Manuel in "I Am an American," an episode of the crime drama "The Sheriff of Cochise. In the 1958 season 1 finale of The Restless Gun, he appeared. In the 1958 drama Courage of Black Beauty, he appeared as Bobby Adams. In the 1958 episode "The Dealer" in Tales of Wells Fargo, Tommy Peel appeared as Tommy Peel. He had appeared on CBS's "The Sally Potter Story" and the syndicated series Crossroads, The Sheriff of Cochise, and Whirlybirds, and three pilots of television series by the spring of 1958. By ABC, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre's third pilot had been picked up, and the first season of The Rifleman began filming in July 1958.

Crawford was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1959, at the age of 13. He was nominated for his role as Mark McCain (the uncle of Lucas McCain, played by Chuck Connors) in The Rifleman. In a 1965 episode of Branded, Crawford played Clay Holden, a teenage boy who befriends Connors. At the Connors' funeral on November 10, 1992, Connors and Crawford were close friends, and Crawford delivered a eulogy at Connors' memorial.

Crawford had a huge following among American teenagers and a recording career on Del-Fi Records, with the single "Cindy's Birthday" debuting at number eight in 1962. "Rumors" (number 12, 1962), "You Nose Is Gonna Increase" (number 14, 1962), and "Proud" (number 29, 1963).

Crawford was victor in the episode "A Very Bright Boy" on The Donna Reed Show, 1961. On The Donna Reed Exhibition, Robert was a guest star. Crawford appeared on NBC education dramas in 1964 and 1965, including Alice Johnson in 1964 and 1965. JoJo Rizzo, a schoolgirl from 1965, appeared on the NBC education drama.

In Mister Ed, Crawford played Jeff, Wilbur's neighbor, who was more interested in pop music than algebra.

Crawford played an American Indian in the rare adventure film Indian Paint (1965), one of his films. In The Restless Ones (1965), he portrayed a fictional teenage girl played by Kim Darby (1965) and performed a character shot by John Wayne in El Dorado (1966). Billy Norris, a young deputy, appeared in the Big Valley's "The Other Face of Justice" from 1969.

Crawford spent two years in the United States Army as a production coordinator, assistant director, script supervisor, and occasional actor. At the time of his commendable discharge in December 1967, his rank was sergeant.

In 1968, Crawford appeared in "By the Numbers," an episode of the television series Hawaii Five-O.

The Resurrection of Broncho Billy was a student film Crawford decided to do as a favor to his close friend, producer John Longenecker. It received the Best Live Action Short Subject Award at the 1970 Academy.

Crawford and Victoria Principal were the subject of a partially animated 1973 feature film directed by Hugh Hefner.

Crawford co-starred Ben Shelby in the tenth episode of Little House on the Prairie, "The Hunters" in 1976.

She Wrote that Crawford appeared as Deputy Noah Paisley in a 1985 episode of Murder.

Crawford was instrumental in Victoria Jackson's early days in Saturday Night Live's career. After the two appeared together in a summer stock production of Meet Me in St. Louis, he gave her a one-way ticket to California and encouraged her to pursue a career in Hollywood. Jackson appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson early in his career, and then she was cast as a regular on SNL.

William S. Hart was the only actor in a film to play him.

Crawford founded a California-based vintage dance group that appeared at special functions from 1992 to 1992. JCO (Johnny Crawford Orchestra) was the band's official name. When Crawford's drums appeared in Las Vegas, Nevada, the JCO emblem appeared on Crawford's drums. The band has been sponsored by the Playboy Jazz Festival, and the orchestra has been on display at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, for 15 years as an Art Directors Guild Award winner. On the label CD Baby, a remastered version of the orchestra's highly rated first album, Sweepin' the Clouds Away, was released on August 21, 2012.

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