Johnny crawford obituary: Conceived John Ernest Crawford in Los Angeles into a dramatic and melodic family – his fatherly granddad worked for Irving Berlin – Crawford was just six when his Sunday teacher, who was likewise a specialist, started looking for some kind of employment for the gifted youngster. Trying out for The Mickey Mouse Club with a version of the Johnnie Ray hit “Cry,” Crawford got the gig and showed up in 16 scenes of what might turn into the Boomer Generation’s primary youth arrangement.

Crawford showed up on 16 scenes of the principal season, at that point proceeded onward to visitor appearances in such TV arrangement as The Lone Ranger, The Frank Sinatra Show, The Danny Thomas Show and Wagon Train, among others, prior to handling the part of Mark McCain in 1958 on The Rifleman.

For his job as the child of a bereaved, Winchester-carrying farmer, Crawford was designated for a 1959 Best Supporting Actor Emmy. That very year, his sibling, Bobby Crawford was Emmy-assigned for a presentation in a scene of Playhouse 90, similar to their dad Robert, a proofreader on The Bob Cummings Show.

During his Rifleman notoriety, Crawford recorded a few collections, delivering a series of singles, the most mainstream being the whispery “Cindy’s Birthday,” which arrived at No. 8 on the outlines in June 1962.

Crawford remained occupied with visitor appearances on roundabout TV all through the ’60s and well into the ’70s, with credits including Rawhide, Lancer, The Big Valley, Hawaii Five-O, Little House on the Prairie, and, later, Murder She Wrote. He co-featured with Kim Darby in the 1965 film The Restless Ones, and that very year with Beau Bridges, Ron Howard and Tommy Kirk in the adolescent delinquent-science fiction camp exemplary Village of the Giants. He showed up with John Wayne in 1967’s El Dorado and Victoria Principal in 1973’s The Naked Ape.