- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 26, 1946
- Place of Birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Died
- April 29, 2021
Johnny Crawford
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 sea…
Filmography
movieBill Tilghman and the Outlaws
2019
movieThe Thirteenth Floor
1999 · Singer
Vicki!
tvVicki!
1992 · Self
movieThe Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
1991 · Mark McCain
movieBloodhounds of Broadway
1989 · Musician
movieCrossbow: The Movie
1989 · Prince Ignatius
tvParadise
1988 · McKay
tvCrossbow
1987 · Prince Ignatius
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984 · Noah Paisley
movieThe Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1983 · Masket
tvThe Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1983 · Masket
movieMacbeth
1981 · Seyton
movieWhen the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Self
movieThe Shootist
1976 · Books' Victim in Flashback (archive footage / uncredited)
movieThe Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976 · Slim
movieThe inbreaker
1974
movieSonic Boom
1974 · Charlton Heston
movieThe Naked Ape
1973 · Lee
movieThe Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
1970 · Associate Producer
movieThe Resurrection of Broncho Billy
1970 · Broncho Billy
tvLancer
1968
tvHawaii Five-O
1968 · Private Jerry Franklin
movieThe Movie Orgy
1968 · Self (archive footage)
movieEl Dorado
1966 · Luke MacDonald
movieThe Restless Ones
1965 · David Winton
movieVillage of the Giants
1965 · Horsey
movieIndian Paint
1965 · Nishko
tvBranded
1965 · Deputy Sheriff Clay Holden
tvMr. Novak
1963 · JoJo Rizzo, USSR - United Nations Assembly
One Man's Challenge
movieOne Man's Challenge
1962 · Self
tvMister Ed
1961
tvRawhide
1959 · Aaron Bolt
tvThe Rifleman
1958 · Mark McCain
tvThe Donna Reed Show
1958 · Victor
movieThe Space Children
1958 · Ken Brewster
tvTrackdown
1957 · Eric Paine
tvWagon Train
1957 · Jimmy Bennett
tvHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
movieCourage of Black Beauty
1957 · Bobby Adams
tvDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Billy Prescott, Mark McCain
tvTelephone Time
1956
tvThe Count of Monte Cristo
1956
tvMatinee Theater
1955
tvThe Mickey Mouse Club
1955 · Self
tvThe Millionaire
1955 · Wally
tvThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Self
tvLetter to Loretta
1953 · Freddy, Arthur Mullen, Bobby Wright
tvCavalcade of America
1952 · Billy Brandon (as a boy)
tvThe Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Lux Video Theatre
tvLux Video Theatre
1950 · Jerry, Jean
tvThe Lone Ranger
1949 · Tommy McQueen