$1 Million: Johnny Crawford net value: Johnny Crawford can be an American actor, musician, and singer who includes a net value of $1 million dollars. Johnny Crawford was created in LA, California, and was raised in a family group of actors, musicians, and film/television performers. He started his professional acting profession before a live viewers, performing among the unique Mouseketeers in 1955. From there, he continued to surface in guest-starring and co-starring functions in both film and tv productions. In 1958, he was cast in the part that could make him children name, as Tag McCain on ‘The Rifleman’. A few of his early tasks included, ‘The Guy in the Grey Flannel Match’, ‘The Lone Ranger’, and ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’. He worked well steadily in film, tv, and theatre productions through the past due 90s, but has shifted from acting since after that, in order to concentrate on music.
Known for movies
The Rifleman (1958-1963) as Mark McCain
El Dorado (1967) as Luke MacDonald
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) as Singer
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970) as Broncho Billy
Quick Facts
Full Name
Johnny Crawford
Net Worth
$1 Million
Salary
$1 million
Date Of Birth
March 26, 1946
Height
1.73 m
Profession
Bandleader, Actor, Singer
Nationality
American
Spouse
Charlotte Crawford
Parents
Robert Crawford, Betty Megerlin
Siblings
Robert L. Crawford, Jr., Nance Scott
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Movies
Indian Paint, El Dorado, The Thirteenth Floor, The Naked Ape, The Restless Ones, Village of the Giants, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, The Space Children, The Resurrection of Broncho Billy, Rupert Patterson Wants to Be a Superhero, The Gambler: The Adventure Continues, Courage of Black Beauty, Sonic Boom, Macbeth
TV Shows
The Rifleman, The Mickey Mouse Club
Interesting Facts
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Fact
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Credits Chuck Connors as his favorite acting mentor/best friend.
His acting mentor and former series' lead, Chuck Connors, died on November 10, 1992, at age 71.
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While serving in the Army in the late 1960s, he appeared in a number of period training films remembered by veterans of the times.
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In 2006 he directed a live orchestra using authentic period orchestrations for the premiere screening of the newly restored silent version of Chicago (1927) at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles.
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Released August 5, Sweepin' the Clouds Away is the first album offered by Johnny Crawford And His Orchestra. It features fifteen authentic dance band orchestrations from the 1920s and 1930s, recorded during live performances at the L.A. County Museum of Art and in the historic Gold Room of the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. Vocals by Crawford. Music by Jerome Kern, 'Richard Rodgers', 'Harry Warren', Nacio Herb Brown, Duke Ellington and other music icons of that dance band era. [August 2008]
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He was a guest at the 2012 Memphis Film Festival's "A Gathering of Guns 4: A TV Western Reunion" at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
He has been a compulsive trick roper ever since Montie Montana got him spinning a "flat loop" in the very early days of The Rifleman (1958), and horse wrangler Buster Trow taught him the "butterfly." After his "The Rifleman" days Johnny was coached by Gene McLaughlin for many years.
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Is of Russian, German, English and Irish ancestry.
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A former member of the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) and the AJRA (American Junior Rodeo Association), he competed frequently at rodeos throughout the country during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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His paternal grandfather, Robert "Bobby" Crawford (1889-1941), was a horse jockey from Chicago who changed his occupation to song "plugger" and became a very successful music publisher as the founder of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson and Crawford Music Corp.
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His maternal grandfather, Belgian violinist Alfred Megerlin (1880-1941), was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic (1918-22), the Minneapolis Symphony (1923-26) and The Los Angeles Philharmonic (1927-29).
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Crawford had a key role in the early career of Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live (1975) fame. In 1980, she was a college student in Birmingham, Alabama, earning credit doing flip-flops, as a member of the chorus, in a summer stock production of "Meet Me in St. Louis", featuring Crawford. He presented her with a one-way plane ticket and encouraged her to pursue a career in Hollywood. This led to her 22 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), before she was cast as a regular on Saturday Night Live (1975).
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Continued performing in theater and nightclubs after his early TV and pop-music heydays.
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Most famous for portraying Chuck Connors' sensitive young son, Mark McCain, on the TV series The Rifleman (1958).
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With five Top 40 hits in the 1960s, Crawford's recording of "Cindy's Birthday" peaked at #8 on Billboard's Top 40 in 1962.
Was one of Walt Disney's original Mouseketeers in 1955.
Quotes
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Quote
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[Of Chuck Connors] Well, it was a great childhood, and he was bigger-than-life, a wonderful guy, very intelligent, and a big influence on me, and a great supporter, too. He was always interested in what I was doing and ready to give me advice or help me and he would call me out of the blue, and I really miss him. He left us in '92, and it's still a shock to me to think that he's not around because he had so much energy, and loved life and loved people, and he was "The Rifleman". He was that and a lot more.
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[on his on- and off-screen chemistry with Chuck Connors, who played Lucas McCain on The Rifleman (1958)] He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn't as stern as he was on camera. He was like a kid around me.
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[comparing his character on The Rifleman (1958) to his real-life role as a bandleader] The way I look at it, Mark McCain could have grown up to lead dance bands in the 1920s and '30s. As a young man who sang and played the guitar in two episodes, he might have made his way to Los Angeles, where there was lots of work for musicians in the early 1900s. By 1931, when he would have been the same age that I am now, he might have been leading his own band. I like to think he would have.
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I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.
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[why he thinks his Mark McCain character on The Rifleman (1958) became popular with audiences] What boy wouldn't love dressing up as a cowboy and getting paid for it! It was hard work, and I took it very seriously as an actor, but I was living in a dream.
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[on his orchestrated band] It's a unique, romantic sound, and people love to hear it. It takes people back to an older America and a simpler, more elegant time. It's a sound I really love, and I find that once people get a chance to hear it live, in all its glory, that they love it, too.
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[about a concert given by his band] There were only about 50 people there, and they were all enjoying the band, and almost all were dancing. One fellow was standing off to the side watching for the longest time; it was Dustin Hoffman. He loved it. He said it reminded him of when he was a little boy and his parents took him to see Ted Lewis. Martin Short was a riot. He said, "I wanna sing with Johnny Crawford!".
$1 Million
