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Joseph Crawford

Shows · Joseph Crawford

ActorOn stage 19491960

On stage 5 productions, 11 years

1949 Lost in the Stars Music Box · Original · directed by Rouben Mamoulian 273 perf.
1953 Porgy and Bess Theatre not recorded · Revival 305 perf.
1954 Show Boat City Center · Revival · directed by William Hammerstein 15 perf.
1959 Saratoga Winter Garden Theatre · Revival · directed by Ralph Beaumont 80 perf.
1960 Christine 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Chodorov 12 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once7 names

Clyde Turner 3 productions
Walter P. Brown 2 productions
Vito Durante 2 productions
Sibol Cain 2 productions
Joseph James 2 productions
Christine Spencer 2 productions
Augie Rios 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 4 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on1 work

Porgy and Bess

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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