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As a young teen in the 70’s, Broderick Crawford didn’t understand his mother. He’d return to the family’s two-story home on 12th and Richmond Avenue at the end of the school day and find ...
As a young man from Philadelphia, US, Broderick Crawford garnered the attention of directors when performing on stage. In the theatre, he played the simple-minded giant Lenny in the Broadway ...
Actor Broderick Crawford, who starred in the television series Highway Patrol and won an Oscar for the movie All the King’s Men, died Saturday. Crawford, 74, died at Eisenhower Medical Center of ...
Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American Academy Award-winning actor. Crawford was born William Broderick Crawford in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Lester Crawford ...
This arresting image catches Hollywood actor Broderick Crawford, who won an Academy Award in 1949 for his role as populist politician Willie Stark in “All the King’s Men,” in half light.
And this got me thinking about our own local connection to the show’s star, Broderick Crawford. There are quite a few folks who know that he’s buried in Ferndale Cemetery, alongside his ...
To some car-crazy kids who grew up in the 1950s, a black-and-white ’55 Buick sedan will always be Broderick Crawford. The man and the car are inseparable. The burly Oscar-winning actor did not ...