Robert Lawrence Crawford, Jr. (born May 13, 1944 in Quantico, Virginia) is an American actor who portrayed Andy Sherman on the NBC television series Laramie. Crawford is sometimes credited as Bobby Crawford or Robert L. Crawford, without the generational suffix.[1]
In 1959, Crawford's acting on the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90 was nominated for Best Single Performance on the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards; that year's Emmy Awards also nominated Crawford's younger brother Johnny Crawford for his recurring portrayal of Mark McCain on The Rifleman.[2] Their father, also named Robert Crawford and occasionally referred to as Robert Crawford, Sr., was a well-known, Emmy-nominated film editor[3] who portrayed Detective Phil Burns on thirteen episodes of the syndicated television series Manhunt.
In the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Robert Jr. was a production assistant, associate producer, and producer on films such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), The Sting (1973), Slap Shot (1977), The World According to Garp (1982), and The Parasite (1997).[4]