Broderick Crawford
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Broderick Crawford was an Academy Award-winning American stage, film, radio and TV actor
, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his starring role in the television series "Highway Patrol
."
, to Lester Crawford and Helen Broderick
, who were both vaudeville
performers, as his grandparents had been. His father appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s; his mother had a minor career in Hollywood comedies. He joined his parents on the stage, working for producer Max Gordon
. When vaudeville went into decline, he attended Harvard University
for three months, but dropped out to work as a stevedore
on the New York docks.
on their NBC
radio comedy show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel. He played his first serious character as a footballer in She Loves Me Not
at the Adelphi Theatre
, London in 1932. Crawford's talents were spotted by Noël Coward
during the three weeks the play ran. Coward also played in the 1935 Broadway production of 'Point Valaine'.
Early in his career, Crawford was stereotyped as a rough-talking tough guy and frequently played the villain. He gained fame in 1937, when he starred as Lenny in Of Mice and Men
on Broadway
. He moved to Hollywood, but did not play the role in the film version. (It went to Lon Chaney, Jr.
.)
During World War II
Crawford enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps
. Assigned to the Armed Forces Network, he was sent to Britain in 1944 as a sergeant, serving as an announcer for the Glenn Miller
American Band.
In 1949 Crawford was cast as Willie Stark, a character based on Louisiana
politician Huey Long
, in All the King's Men
, which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor
. The following year he starred in another hit film, Born Yesterday
.
Despite his success Crawford's career suffered because of typecasting and his own, sometimes belligerent, personality. Nevertheless, he appeared in such successful films as Phil Karlson
's Scandal Sheet (1952), Fritz Lang
's Human Desire
(1954), Federico Fellini
's Il bidone
(1955) and Richard Fleischer
's Between Heaven and Hell
(1956). He appeared also in Stanley Kramer
's Not as a Stranger
(1955), "the worst film with the best cast"; and he even tried the European sword and sandal
films in Vittorio Cotaffavi's La vendetta di Ercole (1960) also known in USA as Goliath and the Dragon
.
In 1955 television producer Frederick Ziv
offered Crawford the lead role as "Chief" Dan Mathews in the police drama Highway Patrol
. The program was very popular during its four years (1955–1959) of first-run syndication and remained on local stations for many years afterward. The show revived Crawford's career, and he concentrated on television for the rest of his life. For much of the period from 1955 until 1965 most of his television roles involved Ziv, who was among the relative handful of producers willing to accept the occasional challenges inherent in working with the hard-living Crawford. Years later Ziv admitted to an interviewer, "To be honest, Broderick could be a handful!" When the show ended Crawford was given the starring role in another Ziv production, King of Diamonds, playing diamond industry security chief John King; the show lasted just one season (1961–62).
Crawford was typecast in his television roles as gruff but fearless characters. He appeared in few American motion pictures after 1955, though he continued to accept occasional roles in European-made films. Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC
's Saturday Night Live
that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd
, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's sexuality.
In an episode of the TV series CHiPs
Crawford appeared as himself, recognized after being stopped by Officer Poncherello, who presses a reluctant Crawford to give his trademark line from Highway Patrol ("Twenty-One-Fifty to Headquarters!"). This episode, filmed nearly two decades after Highway Patrol ceased production in 1959, demonstrated the enduring image which followed Crawford.
Musician Webb Wilder's instrumental, "Ruff Rider" (on the album It Came From Nashville), is dedicated to Broderick Crawford in admiration of his Highway Patrol
character's ability to solve any crime committed in California by setting up a road block. Crawford worked in 140 motion pictures and television series during his career and remained an especially durable presence in television. His last role was as a film producer who is murdered in a 1982 episode of the "Simon and Simon" television series. Ironically, the actor who played the part of the suspected murderer was Stuart Whitman, who had played the recurring part of Sergeant Walters on "Highway Patrol".
after years of hard living and drinking, which continued virtually unabated to the end of his life. One of his long term pals for such adventures was Lon Chaney, Jr. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
, one for motion pictures at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard and another for television at 6734 Hollywood Boulevard.
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his starring role in the television series "Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol (TV series)
Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced 1955-1959.-Overview:Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state...
."
Early life
Crawford was born William Broderick Crawford in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, to Lester Crawford and Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick was an American film and stage actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick.-Career:...
, who were both vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
performers, as his grandparents had been. His father appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s; his mother had a minor career in Hollywood comedies. He joined his parents on the stage, working for producer Max Gordon
Max Gordon (producer)
Max Gordon was an American theatre and film producer. His credits included My Sister Eileen, which he produced both on stage and on film.-Biography:...
. When vaudeville went into decline, he attended Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
for three months, but dropped out to work as a stevedore
Stevedore
Stevedore, dockworker, docker, dock labourer, wharfie and longshoreman can have various waterfront-related meanings concerning loading and unloading ships, according to place and country....
on the New York docks.
Acting career
Crawford returned to vaudeville and radio, which included a period with the Marx BrothersMarx Brothers
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950...
on their NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
radio comedy show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel. He played his first serious character as a footballer in She Loves Me Not
She Loves Me Not
She Loves Me Not is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A print of the film survive at the film archive of the British Film Institute.-Cast:* Harold Lloyd* Snub Pollard* Bebe Daniels* Sammy Brooks* Billy Fay* William Gillespie...
at the Adelphi Theatre
Adelphi Theatre
The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site. The theatre has specialised in comedy and musical theatre, and today it is a receiving house for a variety of productions, including many musicals...
, London in 1932. Crawford's talents were spotted by Noël Coward
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
during the three weeks the play ran. Coward also played in the 1935 Broadway production of 'Point Valaine'.
Early in his career, Crawford was stereotyped as a rough-talking tough guy and frequently played the villain. He gained fame in 1937, when he starred as Lenny in Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California, USA....
on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
. He moved to Hollywood, but did not play the role in the film version. (It went to Lon Chaney, Jr.
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Lon Chaney, Jr. , born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney...
.)
During World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
Crawford enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps
United States Army Air Corps
The United States Army Air Corps was a forerunner of the United States Air Force. Renamed from the Air Service on 2 July 1926, it was part of the United States Army and the predecessor of the United States Army Air Forces , established in 1941...
. Assigned to the Armed Forces Network, he was sent to Britain in 1944 as a sergeant, serving as an announcer for the Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
American Band.
In 1949 Crawford was cast as Willie Stark, a character based on Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
politician Huey Long
Huey Long
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. , nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D...
, in All the King's Men
All the King's Men (1949 film)
All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...
, which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
. The following year he starred in another hit film, Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday (1950 film)
Born Yesterday is a 1950 film based on the play of the same name by Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....
.
Despite his success Crawford's career suffered because of typecasting and his own, sometimes belligerent, personality. Nevertheless, he appeared in such successful films as Phil Karlson
Phil Karlson
Phil Karlson was a film director known for his no-nonsense film noirs. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John Payne in the early 1950s...
's Scandal Sheet (1952), Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
's Human Desire
Human Desire
Human Desire is a black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang, and based on the novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola. The story was filmed twice before: La Bête humaine directed by Jean Renoir and Die Bestie im Menschen .-Plot:Railroad supervisor Carl Buckley gets fired from his job...
(1954), Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
's Il bidone
Il bidone
Il bidone is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others....
(1955) and Richard Fleischer
Richard Fleischer
-Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO...
's Between Heaven and Hell
Between Heaven and Hell (film)
Between Heaven and Hell is a 1956 20th Century Fox Cinemascope colour war film based on the novel The Day the Century Ended by Francis Gwaltney that the film follows closely...
(1956). He appeared also in Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer. Kramer was responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies...
's Not as a Stranger
Not as a Stranger
Not as a Stranger was a 1954 novel written by Morton Thompson. The romantic melodrama became widely popular, topping that year's list of bestselling novels in the United States. The novel was adapted into a 1955 film of the same name by United Artists Pictures...
(1955), "the worst film with the best cast"; and he even tried the European sword and sandal
Sword and sandal
The Peplum , also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made Historical or Biblical Epics that dominated the Italian film industry from 1957 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western"...
films in Vittorio Cotaffavi's La vendetta di Ercole (1960) also known in USA as Goliath and the Dragon
Goliath and the Dragon
La vendetta di Ercole , better known as Goliath and the Dragon, is a 1960 Italian film starring Mark Forest and Broderick Crawford. The identity of the title character was changed from Hercules to Goliath for release in the United States.The film was distributed in North America by American...
.
In 1955 television producer Frederick Ziv
Frederick Ziv
Frederick William Ziv was an American broadcasting producer and syndicator who is considered the father of television syndication and once operated the nation's largest independent television production company....
offered Crawford the lead role as "Chief" Dan Mathews in the police drama Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol (TV series)
Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced 1955-1959.-Overview:Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state...
. The program was very popular during its four years (1955–1959) of first-run syndication and remained on local stations for many years afterward. The show revived Crawford's career, and he concentrated on television for the rest of his life. For much of the period from 1955 until 1965 most of his television roles involved Ziv, who was among the relative handful of producers willing to accept the occasional challenges inherent in working with the hard-living Crawford. Years later Ziv admitted to an interviewer, "To be honest, Broderick could be a handful!" When the show ended Crawford was given the starring role in another Ziv production, King of Diamonds, playing diamond industry security chief John King; the show lasted just one season (1961–62).
Crawford was typecast in his television roles as gruff but fearless characters. He appeared in few American motion pictures after 1955, though he continued to accept occasional roles in European-made films. Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...
, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972...
, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's sexuality.
In an episode of the TV series CHiPs
CHiPs
CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...
Crawford appeared as himself, recognized after being stopped by Officer Poncherello, who presses a reluctant Crawford to give his trademark line from Highway Patrol ("Twenty-One-Fifty to Headquarters!"). This episode, filmed nearly two decades after Highway Patrol ceased production in 1959, demonstrated the enduring image which followed Crawford.
Musician Webb Wilder's instrumental, "Ruff Rider" (on the album It Came From Nashville), is dedicated to Broderick Crawford in admiration of his Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol (TV series)
Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced 1955-1959.-Overview:Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state...
character's ability to solve any crime committed in California by setting up a road block. Crawford worked in 140 motion pictures and television series during his career and remained an especially durable presence in television. His last role was as a film producer who is murdered in a 1982 episode of the "Simon and Simon" television series. Ironically, the actor who played the part of the suspected murderer was Stuart Whitman, who had played the recurring part of Sergeant Walters on "Highway Patrol".
Death
Crawford married three times; he had two sons (Kelly and Kim) from his marriage to actress Kay Griffith. He died of a stroke in 1986 at the age of 74 in Rancho Mirage, CaliforniaRancho Mirage, California
Rancho Mirage is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal population can exceed 20,000. In between Cathedral City and Palm Desert, it is one of the eight cities of the Coachella...
after years of hard living and drinking, which continued virtually unabated to the end of his life. One of his long term pals for such adventures was Lon Chaney, Jr. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
, one for motion pictures at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard and another for television at 6734 Hollywood Boulevard.
Filmography
- Woman Chases Man (1937)
- Start Cheering (1938)
- Ambush (1939)
- Sudden Money (1939)
- Undercover Doctor (1939)
- Beau GesteBeau Geste (1939 film)Beau Geste is a 1939 film produced by Paramount Pictures based on the novel of the same name by P. C. Wren. It was directed and produced by William A. Wellman from a screenplay by Robert Carson...
(1939) - Island of Lost MenIsland of Lost MenIsland of Lost Men is a 1939 American movie directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, and Anthony Quinn. It tells the story of the daughter of a general who goes to look for her father after he disappears...
(1939) - The Real GloryThe Real GloryThe Real Glory is a 1939 Samuel Goldwyn Company action film starring Gary Cooper, David Niven, and Broderick Crawford released by United Artists in the weeks immediately following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Based on a 1937 novel of the same name by Charles L...
(1939) - Eternally YoursEternally Yours (film)Eternally Yours is a 1939 American comedy film made by Walter Wanger and released by United Artists. The film was produced and directed by Tay Garnett with Walter Wanger as executive producer, from a screenplay by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne....
(1939) - Slightly Honorable (1940)
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
- When the Daltons RodeWhen the Daltons RodeWhen the Daltons Rode is a 1940 western film starring Randolph Scott as a family friend who tries to dissuade the Daltons from turning outlaw...
(1940) - Seven Sinners (1940)
- Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
- The Black CatThe Black Cat (1941 film)The Black Cat is a 1941 film based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Actor Bela Lugosi also appeared in the 1934 adaptation of the story. The comedy/horror film was directed by Albert S. Rogell, and starred Basil Rathbone.-Main cast:...
(1941) - Tight Shoes (1941)
- Badlands of Dakota (1941)
- South of Tahiti (1941)
- North to the Klondike (1942)
- Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
- Larceny, Inc.Larceny, Inc.Larceny, Inc. is an American film. Originally released on May 2, 1942 by Warner Brothers, the film is a cross between the comedy and gangster genres. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, it stars Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson, Anthony Quinn, and Edward Brophy.The film is based...
(1942) - BroadwayBroadway (1942 film)Broadway is a 1942 film about Broadway theatre with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Gwynne, and S.Z. Sakall. Raft plays himself, recalling an incident early in his pre-movie career as a dancer. The movie was directed by William A....
(1942) - Keeping Fit (1942)
- Men of Texas (1942)
- Sin Town (1942)
- The Runaround (1946)
- Black AngelBlack AngelBlack Angel is a 1946 film noir, based on the novel The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich. The film was director Roy William Neill's last film.-Plot:...
(1946) - Slave Girl (1947)
- The Flame (1947)
- The Time of Your LifeThe Time of Your Life (film)The Time of Your Life is a 1948 film starring James Cagney adapted from the 1939 William Saroyan play of the same title. The movie was adapted by Nathaniel Curtis, directed by H. C. Potter, and featured William Bendix as Nick, Wayne Morris as Tom, Broderick Crawford as Krupp, and Ward Bond as...
(1948) - Sealed Verdict (1948)
- Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)
- A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
- Night Unto NightNight Unto NightNight Unto Night is a 1949 drama film directed by Don Siegel, based on the 1944 novel by Philip Wylie.-Cast:* Ronald Reagan - John Galen* Viveca Lindfors - Ann Gracy* Broderick Crawford - C.L. Shawn* Rosemary DeCamp - Thalia Shawn* Osa Massen - Lisa...
(1949) - All the King's MenAll the King's Men (1949 film)All the King's Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark.-Plot:...
(1949) - Cargo to Capetown (1950)
- Convicted (1950)
- Born YesterdayBorn Yesterday (1950 film)Born Yesterday is a 1950 film based on the play of the same name by Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin....
(1950) - Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951)
- The MobThe Mob (film)The Mob is a 1951 crime thriller film, considered film noir, starring Broderick Crawford as a hard-nosed cop who infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. Actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman...
(1951) - Scandal Sheet (1952)
- Lone StarLone Star (1952 film)Lone Star is a 1952 Western film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, and Lionel Barrymore as President Andrew Jackson...
(1952) - Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
- Last of the Comanches (1953)
- The Last Posse (1953)
- Night People (1954)
- Human DesireHuman DesireHuman Desire is a black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang, and based on the novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola. The story was filmed twice before: La Bête humaine directed by Jean Renoir and Die Bestie im Menschen .-Plot:Railroad supervisor Carl Buckley gets fired from his job...
(1954) - Down Three Dark StreetsDown Three Dark StreetsDown Three Dark Streets is a 1954 documentary-style film noir, starring Broderick Crawford and directed by Arnold Laven. The screenplay was written by Gordon and Mildred Gordon, based on their novel Case File FBI.-Plot:...
(1954) - Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Mexico (1954)
- Man on a Bus (1955)
- New York ConfidentialNew York Confidential (film)New York Confidential is a 1955 crime film starring Broderick Crawford and Richard Conte as New York gangsters. It is based on the 1948 book New York: Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.-Plot:...
(1955) - Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
- Not as a StrangerNot as a StrangerNot as a Stranger was a 1954 novel written by Morton Thompson. The romantic melodrama became widely popular, topping that year's list of bestselling novels in the United States. The novel was adapted into a 1955 film of the same name by United Artists Pictures...
(1955) - Il bidoneIl bidoneIl bidone is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others....
(1955) - The Fastest Gun AliveThe Fastest Gun AliveThe Fastest Gun Alive is a 1956 western film starring Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain and Broderick Crawford.-Plot:Notorious gunslinger George Kelby Jr. and his wife Dora settle down in a peaceful little town of Cross Creek under assumed identities to avoid having to continually face men out to become...
(1956) - Between Heaven and HellBetween Heaven and Hell (film)Between Heaven and Hell is a 1956 20th Century Fox Cinemascope colour war film based on the novel The Day the Century Ended by Francis Gwaltney that the film follows closely...
(1956) - The Decks Ran RedThe Decks Ran RedThe Decks Ran Red is a 1958 M-G-M sea-going suspense drama based on the book Infamy at Sea, and directed by Andrew L. Stone. The feature starred, James Mason, Dorothy Dandridge, Broderick Crawford, and Stuart Whitman....
(1958) - Goliath and the DragonGoliath and the DragonLa vendetta di Ercole , better known as Goliath and the Dragon, is a 1960 Italian film starring Mark Forest and Broderick Crawford. The identity of the title character was changed from Hercules to Goliath for release in the United States.The film was distributed in North America by American...
(1960) - Convicts 4Convicts 4Convicts 4 is a 1962 prison film drama starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. A true story, it is based on the autobiography of John Resko, Reprieve.- Plot summary :...
(1962) - The Castilian (1962)
- No temas a la ley (1963)
- Square of Violence (1963)
- A House Is Not a HomeA House Is Not a Home (film)A House Is Not a Home is a 1964 drama film loosely based on the 1953 autobiography by madam Polly Adler. The film stars Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, and Kaye Ballard.Raquel Welch made her film debut in a small role as a prostitute.-Plot:...
(1964) - Up from the BeachUp from the BeachUp from the Beach is a 1965 Anglo-American war film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons and James Robertson Justice...
(1965) - Mutiny at Fort Sharp (1966)
- Kid Rodelo (1966)
- The OscarThe Oscar (film)The Oscar is a 1966 American drama film, written by Harlan Ellison, Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse and Richard Sale, directed by Rouse and starring Stephen Boyd, singer Tony Bennett , comedian Milton Berle , Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, Jill St. John, and Eleanor Parker...
(1966) - The Texican (1966)
- Red Tomahawk (1967)
- The Vulture (1967)
- The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
- Ransom Money (1970)
- Hell's Bloody Devils (1970)
- The Naughty Cheerleader (1970)
- Gregorio and His Angel (1970)
- Embassy (1972)
- The CandidateThe Candidate (1972 film)The Candidate is a 1972 American film starring Robert Redford. Its themes include how the political machine corrupts. There are many parallels between the then-recent 1970 California Senate election between John V. Tunney and George Murphy; however, Redford's character Bill McKay is a political...
(1972) - Terror in the Wax Museum (1973)
- Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved HollywoodWon Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved HollywoodWon Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood is a 1976 film directed by Michael Winner and starring Madeline Kahn, Bruce Dern, Teri Garr, and Art Carney...
(1976) - Look What's Happened to Rosemary's BabyLook What's Happened to Rosemary's BabyLook What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby is a 1976 TV movie, and a sequel to the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby. It has little connection to the novel by Ira Levin on which the first film was based.-The Book of Rosemary:...
- Proof of the Man (1977)
- The Private Files of J. Edgar HooverThe Private Files of J. Edgar HooverThe Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover is a 1977 film directed by Larry Cohen. It stars Broderick Crawford and James Wainwright. The all star cast includes Jose Ferrer, Michael Parks, Celeste Holm, Ronee Blakely, Tanya Roberts in a cameo role, and in final screen appearances, Jack Cassidy and Dan...
(1977) - A Little RomanceA Little RomanceA Little Romance is a 1979 romantic comedy film, starring Laurence Olivier and Diane Lane in her film debut. It was directed by George Roy Hill. The screenplay is written by Allan Burns and George Roy Hill, based on a novel by Patrick Cauvin...
(1979) - HarlequinHarlequin (film)Harlequin, known as Dark Forces in the USA, is a 1980 Australian film starring Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings and Broderick Crawford...
(1980) - There Goes the Bride (1980)
- The Uppercrust (1982)
- Liar's MoonLiar's MoonLiar's Moon is a 1982 film directed by David Andrew Fisher and starring Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Hoyt Axton.-Synopsis:...
(1982)
External links
- Watch Highway Patrol
- Broderick Crawford in Il Bidone
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