John Ernest Crawford 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 NBCs 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 NBCs Matinee Theatre, appeared on CBSs 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 Powells 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.
Self (archive footage)
Film 1968
Luke MacDonald
Film 1966
Horsey
Film 1965
Slim
Film 1976
Musician
Film 1989
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Film 1979
David Winton
Film 1965
Broncho Billy
Film 1970
Nishko
Film 1965
Lee
Film 1973
Bobby Adams
Film 1957
Masket
Film 1983
Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
Film 1976
Singer
Film 1999
Ken Brewster
Film 1958
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Charlton Heston
Film 1974
Seyton
Film 1981
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Tv 1961
Noah Paisley
Tv 1984
Tv 1957
Private Jerry Franklin
Tv 1968
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Tv 1955
Aaron Bolt
Tv 1959
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Tv 1968
Jerry
Tv 1950
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Mark McCain
Tv 1958
JoJo Rizzo
Tv 1963
Billy Brandon (as a boy)
Tv 1952
Billy Prescott
Tv 1956
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Tv 1992
Deputy Sheriff Clay Holden
Tv 1965
Mark McCain
Tv 1956
USSR - United Nations Assembly
Tv 1963
Jimmy Bennett
Tv 1957
McKay
Tv 1988
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