Michael Crawford(I)

Michael's father was a pilot during the second World War and was killed in action before Michael was born resulting in him being brought up by his mother, Doris, and his Irish grandmother, Kathleen. His mother married a Kent grocer when Michael was 4 years old, but after his mother died, when he was 21, Michael broke off all contact with his step-father.

Michael was educated at Oakfield School in Dulwich and developed his singing skills as a chorister. At 12 years of age, he was picked by Benjamin Britten to sing with the English Opera Company. Afterward, when he was 14 years of age, Michael was in films for children. Then, at 15-years of age, he was in a school play where he was spotted by an agent and put into a radio program during which he developed a relationship with hairdresser Patricia Maxwell and became engaged but then he met Gabrielle Lewis at a club where he was relaxing after a show. This resulted in his daughter Angelique being born to Patricia the same month that he married Gabrielle, and daughters Emm and Lucy. He divorced in 1975 and moved to America in the 1980's. In 1996 he was in the show EFX in Las Vegas and fell sustaining a high impact injury to a femur and hip.