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Actor Born: January 19, 1942 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK Biography:Emerging onto the British show-business scene as a boy soprano, "Michael Crawford" sang in the choir of St. Paul's Cathedral. Though he made a fleeting film appearance in 1950, Crawford would not become a full-fledged professional until dropping out of high school at age 15. His first important film assignment was the 1958 kiddie-matinee programmer Soap Box Derby. He enjoyed a flurry of film activity in the mid- to late '60s, playing such singing roles as Hero in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1966) and Cornelius Hackel in "Hello, Dolly!" (1969). The best of his non-musical film appearances during this period was as the fatally ineffectual Goodman in "How I Won the War" (1967). His British TV-series assignments have included Sir Francis Drake (1962), "Some Mothers Do Have 'Em" (1974-1979), and Chalk and Cheese (1979). A familiar presence in West End theatrical productions from 1965,... Full Biography
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