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