Burly, gruff-voiced supporting player of the 1940s and 50s and son of popular stage and film comedienne Helen Broderick and vaudevillian Lester Crawford. After a brief stab at Hollywood, Crawford returned to Broadway where he won acclaim for his performance as Lennie in the stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" (1937), before returning to film. Because of his thug-like mug he was…
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