Broderick Crawford

Birthday: December 09, 2011

Broderick Crawford was the typical example of "overnight" success on Hollywood -- the 1949 release of All the King's Men turned him into one of the most popular "character" leads in Hollywood, a successor to Wallace Beery and a model for such unconventional leading men to come as Ernest Borgnine. His "overnight" success, however, involved more than a decade of work in routine ...more