Died at 80
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John Ernest Crawford was an American actor, singer, and musician. He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer. At age 12, Crawford rose to prominence playing Mark McCain in the ABC Western series, The Rifleman. Crawford was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age 13 for his work on The Rifleman, which aired from 1958 to 1963. Disney started out with 24 original Mouseketeers. However, at the end of the first season, the studio reduced the number to 12, and Crawford was released from his contract. His first important break as an actor followed with the title role in a Lux Video Theatre production of "Little Boy Lost", a live NBC broadcast on March 15, 1956. He also appeared in the popular Western series The Lone Ranger, in 1956, in one of the few color episodes of that series. Following that performance, the young actor worked steadily with many seasoned actors and directors. Freelancing for two and one-half years, he accumulated almost 60 television credits, including featured roles in three episodes of NBC's The Loretta Young Show and an appearance as Manuel in, "I Am an American", an episode of the syndicated crime drama Sheriff of Cochise. He starred as Bobby Adams in the 1958 drama "Courage of Black Beauty". By the spring of 1958, he had also performed 14 demanding roles in live teleplays for NBC's Matinee Theatre, appeared on CBS's sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve, in the Wagon Train episode "The Sally Potter Story" (in which Martin Milner also appeared) and on the syndicated series, Crossroads, Sheriff of Cochise, and Whirlybirds, and made three pilots of TV series. The third pilot, which was made as an episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, was picked up by ABC and the first season of The Rifleman began filming in July 1958. Crawford had a brief career as a recording artist in the 1950s and 1960s. He continued to act on television and in film as an adult. Beginning in 1992, Crawford led the California-based Johnny Crawford Orchestra, a vintage dance orchestra that performed at special events.
Johnny Crawford
Jack Marston
for Jack Marston in Red Dead Redemption II (1960s)
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Set in 1899, Red Dead Redemption II follows Arthur Morgan, a veteran outlaw and loyal member of Dutch van der Linde's gang. After a failed robbery forces the gang to flee into the wilderness, they struggle to survive while lawmen, bounty hunters, and rival gangs close in around them. As Dutch's dream of freedom begins to collapse, Arthur finds himself caught between loyalty to his gang and his growing doubts about Dutch's increasingly desperate decisions. The gang moves from one hideout to another across the American frontier, committing robberies and facing betrayal, loss, and the changing world around them. Arthur's relationship with John Marston and the other members of the gang becomes increasingly important as he begins to question the life he has chosen. As Dutch becomes more unpredictable and the gang falls apart, Arthur must confront his own past and decide what truly matters to him. Red Dead Redemption II is a story of loyalty, betrayal, friendship, survival, and redemption, reimagined here as a classic 1960s Western film.
