John Crawford

John Crawford
Date of Birth: 13 Sep 1920
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 57 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
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The Americanization of Emily
An American soldier's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission. (imdb)
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Jason and the Argonauts
The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece. (imdb)
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The Enforcer
Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with. (imdb)
Night Moves
Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case... (imdb)
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The 300 Spartans
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidis led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidis helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC. (imdb)
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Duel at Diablo
Lieutenant McAllister is ordered to transport several ammunition wagons to another fort through Apache territory with only a small troop of rookie soldiers to guard them. Along for the ride is ex-scout Jess Remsberg who is trying to track down Ellen Grange, who, having recently been freed from Apache captivity, has mysteriously run off again to rejoin them... (imdb)
The Devil\
Three tales of horror and the supernatural.
The Time of Their Lives
Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence. (imdb)
Return of the Gunfighter
An aging gunman and a wounded drifter come upon a young Mexican girl, and agree to help her avenge the death of her father, who was murdered for their land. (imdb)
Solomon and Sheba
Epic tale of the Biblical king''s seduction by a pagan queen. (imdb)
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Orders to Kill
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance. (imdb)
Hell Is a City
Inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try and track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might. (Jeremy Perkins)
Trouble Man
Mr. T has to dodge police and rival mobsters, when he's framed for a murder he didn't commit.
The Boogens
The title creatures are cocker spaniel sized leeches with slithering tentacles and a nasty bite that inhabit an abandoned silver mine in Colorado. (Chas. Balun)
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I Was a Communist for the FBI
An FBI agent infiltrates the US Communist Party, which causes big problems in his life as nobody is aware that he's an FBI agent.dy knows that he is with the FBI
Captain Sindbad
Sindbad takes on an evil wizard to save the princess he loves. (TCM.com)
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Blackhawk: Fearless Champion of Freedom
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. (imdb)
Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns a gold mine. Her father was murdered and she took over the mine, and now the villains who killed her father are trying to drive her out of the mine so they can take it over. (imdb)
J.W. Coop
After losing eight years to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost 'prime' years of his career, he doggedly goes forward, and learns that not only has the business of rodeo changed during his incarceration but society as a whole has made dramatic changes as well. (imdb)
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Zombies of the Stratosphere
The invaders come to Earth to create an H-bomb to blast Earth out of orbit so that Mars can take its place. (imdb)
Floods of Fear
An innocent man convicted of murder befriends a woman who defends his innocence. (TCM.com)
The Severed Arm
Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one. (imdb)
Outlaw Blues
Susan St. James helps Peter Fonda, an ex-convict who goes after the country music star who stole his song and made it a hit. (imdb)
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Dramatised account of the five year relationship between Elvis Presley and beauty queen, Linda Thompson. (BFI)
Grave Secrets
A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena investigate other-worldly disturbances and unlock the secret of a malevolent force reaching out for vengeance from beyond the grave. (imdb)
Intent to Kill
British melodrama maven Jimmy Sangster adapted his screenplay for Intent to Kill from a novel by Michael Bryan. Richard Todd plays a Montreal doctor who is in love with his pretty American assistant Betsy Drake. Todd is saddled with a viper-tongued wife (Catherine Boyle), who wants him to leave the provinces for a posh practice in London. (allrovi.com)
Conquest of Cochise
A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war. (imdb)
The Macahans
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, help's move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back to fight in the war and leaves the family to move on ahead. (imdb)
Tilt
Tilt is the story of a young girl, who is a pinball machine wizard. Because she does not get on with her parents, Tilt is contemplating running away from home, and skipping school one day she decides to go to Mickey's Bar. Mickey, who is Tilt's good friend, helps her set up a gambler for a pinball game. Because the gambler is unaware of Tilt's pinball wizardry, he is easily hustled out of his money.
The Invisible Monster
Evil villain plots to take over the world using an army of invisible soldiers. (imdb)
Battle of Rogue River
The Indians, under Chief Mike, have been defeating the Army in Oregon for years. The new commander, Major Archer, plans to defeat the Indians once and for all, but his orders are changed to attempt a peaceful settlement. But there are certain people who do not want Oregon to become a state and they will attempt to keep the Indians on the war path. (imdb)
The Phantom of 42nd Street
A theatre critic (Dave O'Brien) teams up with a cop (Jack Mulhall) to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor. (imdb)
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Piccadilly Third Stop
A Playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
Lawman Without a Gun
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Killer by Night
A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
Anthony Dexter---bare-chested most of the film with the smoldering nostrils from "Valentino"---as "Captain Kidd" is saved from hanging by an Earl who wants to get his hand on Kidd's treasure. The Earl thinks the best method is to put a woman confederate (Jeanine Duvall) aboard Kidd's ship as a slave girl to wrest or wrestle the information from him. They fight a lot as a prelude to falling in love, and then work together against the evil Earl's none-too-well laid plan. (imdb)
The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
In 1697, Richard Dale and Alan Duncan are sent on an "undercover" mission by the British Admiralty to find and gather information on the notorious pirate, Captain Kidd. The two agents soon join Kidd's crew and discover, to their surprise, that the Captain is a far different man than they had expected. (imdb)
Honeychile
After a lengthy absence from the screen, Judy Canova returned in the raucous musical Honeychile. The plot had been utilized in several previous Republic films, but was good for yet another go-round here. Canova plays Judy, a would-be songwriter who sends one of her tunes to a big-city composer. When the song, published under another author's name, becomes a hit, music agent Eddie Price (Eddie Foy Jr.) heads to the sticks to negotiate a contract with Judy. (allmovie.com)
The Impersonator
In a small English town a schoolmistress meets a sergeant from the nearby U.S. air force base and they decide on a date. When they miss each other at a cafe as arranged, a train of events is set in motion culminating in the murder of a woman in the local park, and things look bad for the American. (imdb)
The James Brothers of Missouri
The James Brothers go undercover to help a former member of their gang, who is now running a respectable freight business but is is being attacked by a rival who is trying to drive him out of business. When their former colleague is murdered, the brothers stick around to help his daughter, who is now in charge of the business, and stop the attacks. (imdb)
Marshal of Cedar Rock
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason. (imdb)
Man Crazy
Three women come to Hollywood to break into the movies. (imdb)
Cuban Fireball
Estelita is an entertainer in a Cuban cigar-factory and gets into trouble for mimicking her employer, but is fawned over after she inherits $20,000,000. On her way to Los Angelese to collect her inheritance, she decides to make herself unattractive to discourage suitors who want only her money. Tommy Pomeroy, son of the manager of her inherited oil company, proves to want only her (not knowing she is the heiress), and ignoring her other identity as an old, ugly hag. (imdb)
Napoleon and Samantha
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend. (imdb)
Trader Tom of the China Seas
The United Nations has island trader Tom Rogers (Harry Lauter) and Vivian Wells (Aline Towne), daughter of a schooner captain, spearheading the effort to keep subversive native groups from starting revolutions in Burmatra and neighboring Asian countries, which, thank you very much, they accomplish by the end of 12 episodes.
Old Oklahoma Plains
One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. (imdb)
The Quick and the Dead
In 1944 a patrol of American soldiers, after having been driven off their observation post by German troops, tries to make it back through enemy-occupied territory to the safety of their own lines with a partisan girls, and with the Germans in hot pursuit.
Radar Patrol vs. Spy King
The war lords of a potential enemy of the US has the spy ring, led by John Baroda, the Spy King and his aide Nitra, sabotaging the plans for a vast defense system of radar stations along the American borders. Radar Defense Bureau operative Chris Calvert comes to the rescue of a brilliant radar scientist, Joan Hughes, who has been kidnapped by Baroda henchmen in chapter 1, and the two battle together before putting an end to the Spy King in the aptly-named chapter 12, "Day of Reckoning".
The Twilight Zone
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The Time Tunnel
Combat!
Combat! (1962) - TV Series
The Waltons
The Waltons (1971) - TV Series
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Northwest Territory
Fort McKenzie prospector Pop Kellogg, just before the arrival of his newly-orphaned grandson Billy, is killed by McBeau and Dawson, who seek the map showing Pop's secret oil claim. Billy, the now newly-doubled-orphaned grandson, is being escorted to Fort McKenzie by Corporal Rod Webb of the Canadian Mounties and his Wonder Dog, Chinook. Webb turns Billy over to the keeping of Anne DuMere, who runs the trading post for Dan Morgan.
Son of Geronimo: Apache Avenger
Jim Scott attempts to bring peace between west-bound settlers and native Apaches. This task is made harder by a band of local outlaws.
The Fugitive
Rebel City
Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father’s murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham’s problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
Slaves of Babylon
In ancient times, a Jew is instrumental in the crowning of a new Median-Persian king who, in return, conquers Babylon and frees all the Jewish slaves.