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Broderick Crawford
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American actor (1911–1986)
OverviewAI-generated
Broderick Crawford was an American person whose work period began in 1937. He was born on December 9, 1911, and died on April 26, 1986. Crawford had two children. His musical genres are listed as pop soul, quiet storm, and smooth soul, and he is identified as female.
His notable work includes "The Time of Your Life." Crawford was recognized in the Academy Award Best Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. He has been referenced by 494 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Time of Your Life
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1952-02-18
Discography
- Everything Must Change1976
- Miss Randy Crawford1977
- Raw Silk1979
- Now We May Begin1980
- Secret Combination1981
- Windsong1982
- Nightline1983
- Abstract Emotions1986
- Rich and Poor1989
- Through the Eyes of Love1992
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 5
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Broderick+Crawford">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,570x
- Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area
· 2020 · cited 7,401x
- The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package<sup>*</sup>
· 2018 · cited 7,196x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,873x
- Recommendations for Quantitation of the Left Ventricle by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography
· 1989 · cited 5,796x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Crawford
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Rancho Mirage
- Mother
- Helen Broderick
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- Western
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Broderick Crawford 1970.JPG
- Number of children
- 2
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- Broderick Crawford
- date of birth
- 1911-12-09
- date of death
- 1986-04-26
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- name in native language
- Broderick Crawford
- start of work period
- 1937-00-00
- writing language
- English language
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American actor. Known for his "bulldog face and barking voice", he was initially a character actor often cast tough-guy or slob roles, but gained widespread acclaim for his portrayal of Willie Stark in the 1949 film adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. His performance earned him both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. He was later known for his starring role as Dan Mathews on the television series Highway Patrol (1955–59).
Early life
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