Michael Crawford

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-01-19 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Michael Crawford

Biography

Michael Crawford CBE (born 19 January 1942) is an English actor and singer. He has garnered great critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his career, which covers radio, television, film, and stagework on both London's West End and on Broadway in New York City. With a career that spans over four decades, he is known both in and out of Britain for originating the title role in The Phantom of the Opera, as well as playing the hapless Frank Spencer in the popular 1970s British sitcom, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, which successfully earned him a place as a household name and made him famous to millions around the world. Description above f...

Acting

1970

Hello-Goodbye

as Harry England

1993

Once Upon a Forest

as Cornelius (voice)

1967

1969

Hello, Dolly!

as Cornelius Hackl

1961

Two Living, One Dead

as Nils Lindwall

1981

Condorman

as Woody

1962

The War Lover

as Sgt. Junior Sailen

1970

The Games

as Harry Hayes

1967

The Jokers

as Michael Tremayne

1986

Barnum

as Phineas Taylor Barnum

1963

Two Left Feet

as Alan Crabbe

2023

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

as Self (archive footage)

1958

Soapbox Derby

as Peter Toms

2013

1958

1978

Sorry...

as Ferdinand Vanek

2025

now and then

as Cornelius Hackl (archive footage)

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