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Was one of Walt Disney's original Mouseketeers in 1955.

In 2006 he directed a live orchestra using authentic period orchestrations for the premiere screening of the newly restored silent version of Chicago (1927) at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles.

While serving in the Army in the late 1960s, he appeared in a number of period training films remembered by veterans of the times.

With five Top 40 hits in the 1960s, his recording of "Cindy's Birthday" peaked at #8 on Billboard's Top 40 in 1962.

Had a key role in the early career of Victoria Jackson of Il Saturday Night Live (1975) fame. In 1980 she was a college student in Birmingham, AL, earning credit doing flip-flops as a member of the chorus, in a summer stock production of "Meet Me in St. Louis", featuring Crawford. He presented her with a one-way plane ticket and encouraged her to pursue a career in Hollywood. This led to her 22 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), before she was cast as a regular on Il Saturday Night Live (1975).

A former member of the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) and the AJRA (American Junior Rodeo Association), he competed frequently at rodeos throughout the country during the 1960s and early 1970s.

He has been a competitive trick-roper ever since Montie Montana got him spinning a "flat loop" in the early seasons of The Rifleman (1958), and horse wrangler Buster Trow taught him the "butterfly." After wrapping "The Rifleman", Johnny was coached by Gene McLaughlin for many years.

His maternal grandfather, Belgian violinist Alfred Megerlin (1880-1941), was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic (1918-22), the Minneapolis Symphony (1923-26) and The Los Angeles Philharmonic (1927-29).

Continued performing in theater and nightclubs after his early TV and pop-music heydays.

After the original "Mickey Mouse Club", Crawford's second lead role was that of the title character's son in The Rifleman (1958). John stayed with the show for its entire run, co-starring in all but one of the series' 168 episodes.

His paternal grandfather, Robert "Bobby" Crawford (1889-1941), was a horse jockey from Chicago who changed his occupation to song "plugger" and became a very successful music publisher as the founder of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson and Crawford Music Corp. Robert was born Samuel Faden to Russian Jewish parents, Isaac Faden and Rose Isserman.

Released August 5, Sweepin' the Clouds Away is the first album offered by Johnny Crawford And His Orchestra. It features fifteen authentic dance band orchestrations from the 1920s and 1930s, recorded during live performances at the L.A. County Museum of Art and in the historic Gold Room of the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. Vocals by Crawford. Music by Jerome Kern, 'Richard Rodgers', 'Harry Warren', Nacio Herb Brown, Duke Ellington and other music icons of that dance band era. (agosto 2008)

He was a guest at the 2012 Memphis Film Festival's "A Gathering of Guns 4: A TV Western Reunion" at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center in Olive Branch, MS.

Profiled in the 2016 book "X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?" the Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher.

He was of Russian Jewish (his paternal grandfather), English, German, Belgian Flemish, Scottish, and Swiss-German descent.

Brother of Robert Crawford Jr., son of Elizabeth and Robert Crawford.

He was a lifelong Republican.

Dated Debra Tate.