Michael Crawford

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AKA: Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 01/19/1942
Birthplace: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

biography

This red-haired boy soprano and child actor on radio in the 1940s and early 50s became a gawky, gangly romantic lead with an eager, ingenuous charm in British film comedies of the 60s and 70s. Crawford starred in two children's films in the mid-50s, before essaying his first teenage lead in the comedy "Two Left Feet" (1963), as an awkward young man who attempts to seduce a waitress. He followed with a series of charming performances as clumsy, callow young men learning about love in the Richard Lester comedies "The Knack . . . and How to Get It" (1966) and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Continued

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Year
Milestone
 
Was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral
 
Began career as boy soprano
 
Performed on TV and in over 500 radio broadcasts as a child
 
Appeared in the productions "Noye's Fiddle" and Benjamin Britton's "Let's Make an Opera"
1956 
Film debut as star of "Blow Your Own Trumpet" for the Children's Film Foundation
Continued

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