John Crawford

John Crawford was a film and television actor. He played Galactic High Commissioner Ferris in the first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled.

Crawford has made well over 200 film and television appearances. He is probably best known for portraying Sheriff Ep Bridges on the family drama  (1972-81) and for playing Major (and later Colonel) Harry Thompson in the 1979 mini-series and its subsequent series, which lasted for only one season in 1980. Both co-starred regular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Salome Jens, while the mini-series also featured another DS9 actor, Andrew Robinson.

Besides his role on Star Trek, he has also guest-starred on such classic TV shows as ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', and '. He also made several appearances on ', a science fiction series which starred James Darren, Lee Meriwether, and Whit Bissell, and had a recurring role on ', starring Joan Collins and Lee Bergere. Crawford's latest TV appearance was in a 1986 episode of , starring Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly.

His many feature film credits include ' (1950, starring Ricardo Montalban and featuring Frank Overton), (1950, also starring Ricardo Montalban and featuring Kenneth Tobey),  (1952, with Leonard Nimoy),  (1952, with Richard Hale), ' (1952, with Lawrence Tierney), ' (1956, with DeForest Kelley), ' (1962, with Richard Beymer and Jeffrey Hunter), ' (1963, with Nancy Kovack), ' (1964, with William Windom), ' (1965, with Nehemiah Persoff, John Abbott, Michael Ansara, Mark Lenard, and Celia Lovsky),  (1966, with John Hoyt), ' (1972, with Elizabeth Rogers), ' (1972, starring Robert Hooks and Paul Winfield), ' (1974, with Paul Comi and George D. Wallace),  (1975, with Harris Yulin and Kenneth Mars), and  (1979, with Kenneth Mars, Robert Pine, Rex Holman, Nick Ramus, John Arndt, and Vince Deadrick).

Crawford died of a stroke in Newbury Park, California, on 21 September 2010. He was 90 years old.

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