John Ernest Crawford was an American actor, singer, and musician. He first performed before a national audience as a Mouseketeer. At age 12, Crawford rose to prominence playing Mark McCain in the series The Rifleman, for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award at age 13.
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
Crossbow (1987)
Guest starring as Crown Prince Ignatius
(7 episodes)
- Episode 2x18: Rejection (Dec 24, 1988)
- Episode 1x24: The Rebirth (Feb 7, 1988)
- Episode 1x23: The Handmaiden (Jan 31, 1988)
- Episode 1x21: Lotus (Jan 17, 1988) [Uncredited]
- Episode 1x20: The Princess (Jan 10, 1988)
- Episode 1x19: The Citadel (Jan 3, 1988)
- Episode 1x18: The Four Horsemen (Dec 27, 1987)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
Guest starring as Noah Paisley
- Episode 2x07: A Lady in the Lake (Nov 10, 1985) [Co-Star]
Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981)
Guest starring as Horsey
- Episode 4x05: Village of the Giants (Nov 3, 1984)
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Guest starring as Ben Shelby
- Episode 3x10: The Hunters (Dec 20, 1976) [Co-Star]
Cade's County (1971)
Guest starring as Billy Don Bucknell
- Episode 1x11: Requiem for Miss Madrid (Dec 12, 1971)
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
Guest starring as Private Jerry Franklin
- Episode 1x11: By the Numbers (Dec 12, 1968)
The Big Valley (1965)
Guest starring as Deputy Sheriff Billy Norris
- Episode 4x22: The Other Face of Justice (Mar 31, 1969)
Mr. Novak (1963)
Guest starring as USSR - United Nations Assembly
- Episode 2x24: The Tender Twigs (Mar 16, 1965)
Guest starring as JoJo Rizzo
- Episode 2x06: Let's Dig a Little Grammar (Nov 10, 1964)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Guest starring as Johnny Crawford
- Episode 1x39: Feb. 1, 1962 (Feb 1, 1962)
The Dick Powell Show (1961)
Guest starring as Pete Johnson
- Episode 2x21: Apples Don't Fall Far (Feb 19, 1963)
Rawhide (1959)
Guest starring as Aaron Bolt
- Episode 8x13: Crossing at White Feather (Dec 7, 1965) [Co-Star]
The Rifleman (1958)
Starring as Mark McCain
(168 episodes)
- Episode 5x26: Old Tony (Apr 8, 1963)
- Episode 5x25: Which Way'd They Go? (Apr 1, 1963)
- Episode 5x24: Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man) (Mar 18, 1963)
- Episode 5x23: The Guest (Mar 11, 1963)
- Episode 5x22: Requiem at Mission Springs (Mar 4, 1963)
- Episode 5x21: The Bullet (Feb 25, 1963)
- Episode 5x20: End of the Hunt (Feb 18, 1963)
- Episode 5x19: And the Devil Makes Five (Feb 11, 1963)
- Episode 5x18: Hostages to Fortune (Feb 4, 1963)
- Episode 5x17: The Sixteenth Cousin (Jan 28, 1963)
- Episode 5x16: The Sidewinder (Jan 21, 1963)
- Episode 5x15: Suspicion (Jan 14, 1963)
- Episode 5x14: Incident at Line Shack Six (Jan 7, 1963)
- Episode 5x13: Conflict (Dec 24, 1962)
- Episode 5x12: The Anvil Chorus (Dec 17, 1962)
- Episode 5x11: Gun Shy (Dec 10, 1962)
- Episode 5x10: Squeeze Play (Dec 3, 1962)
- Episode 5x09: The Most Amazing Man (Nov 26, 1962)
- Episode 5x08: Mark's Rifle (Nov 19, 1962)
- Episode 5x07: The Assailants (Nov 12, 1962)
- Episode 5x06: I Take This Woman (Nov 5, 1962)
- Episode 5x05: Death Never Rides Alone (Oct 29, 1962)
- Episode 5x04: Quiet Night, Deadly Night (Oct 22, 1962)
- Episode 5x03: Lou Mallory (Oct 15, 1962)
- Episode 5x02: Waste (2) (Oct 8, 1962)
- Episode 5x01: Waste (1) (Oct 1, 1962)
- Episode 4x32: The Executioner (May 7, 1962)
- Episode 4x31: Outlaw's Shoes (Apr 30, 1962)
- Episode 4x30: Milly's Brother (Apr 23, 1962)
- Episode 4x29: The Day the Town Slept (Apr 16, 1962)
- Episode 4x28: Day of Reckoning (Apr 9, 1962)
- Episode 4x27: Guilty Conscience (Apr 2, 1962)
- Episode 4x26: Jealous Man (Mar 26, 1962)
- Episode 4x25: None So Blind (Mar 19, 1962)
- Episode 4x24: The Tinhorn (Mar 12, 1962)
- Episode 4x23: The Debt (Mar 5, 1962)
- Episode 4x22: Deadly Image (Feb 26, 1962)
- Episode 4x21: Two Ounces of Tin (Feb 19, 1962)
- Episode 4x20: The Man from Salinas (Feb 12, 1962)
- Episode 4x19: A Young Man's Fancy (Feb 5, 1962)
- Episode 4x18: Sporting Chance (Jan 29, 1962)
- Episode 4x17: The Quiet Fear (Jan 22, 1962)
- Episode 4x16: Gunfire (Jan 15, 1962)
- Episode 4x15: The Princess (Jan 8, 1962)
- Episode 4x14: Skull (Jan 1, 1962)
- Episode 4x13: A Friend in Need (Dec 25, 1961)
- Episode 4x12: The High Country (Dec 18, 1961)
- Episode 4x11: Long Gun from Tucson (Dec 11, 1961)
- Episode 4x10: The Shattered Idol (Dec 4, 1961)
- Episode 4x09: The Long Goodbye (Nov 27, 1961)
- Episode 4x08: Honest Abe (Nov 20, 1961)
- Episode 4x07: Knight Errant (Nov 13, 1961)
- Episode 4x06: The Decision (Nov 6, 1961)
- Episode 4x05: The Journey Back (Oct 30, 1961)
- Episode 4x04: The Stand-In (Oct 23, 1961)
- Episode 4x03: Sheer Terror (Oct 16, 1961)
- Episode 4x02: First Wages (Oct 9, 1961)
- Episode 4x01: The Vaqueros (Oct 2, 1961)
- Episode 3x34: The Queue (May 16, 1961)
- Episode 3x33: Death Trap (May 9, 1961)
- Episode 3x32: The Lonesome Bride (May 2, 1961)
- Episode 3x31: Stopover (Apr 25, 1961)
- Episode 3x30: The Mescalaro Curse (Apr 18, 1961)
- Episode 3x29: The Score is Even (Apr 11, 1961)
- Episode 3x28: The Clarence Bibs Story (Apr 4, 1961)
- Episode 3x27: Short Rope for a Tall Man (Mar 28, 1961)
- Episode 3x26: Assault (Mar 21, 1961)
- Episode 3x25: The Prisoner (Mar 14, 1961)
- Episode 3x24: Dark Day at North Fork (Mar 7, 1961)
- Episode 3x23: The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town (Feb 28, 1961)
- Episode 3x22: Closer Than a Brother (Feb 21, 1961)
- Episode 3x21: The Wyoming Story (2) (Feb 14, 1961)
- Episode 3x20: The Wyoming Story (1) (Feb 7, 1961)
- Episode 3x19: Face of Yesterday (Jan 31, 1961)
- Episode 3x18: The Actress (Jan 24, 1961)
- Episode 3x17: Long Trek (Jan 17, 1961)
- Episode 3x16: Flowers by the Door (Jan 10, 1961)
- Episode 3x15: Six Years and a Day (Jan 30, 1961)
- Episode 3x14: Miss Bertie (Dec 27, 1960)
- Episode 3x13: The Silent Knife (Dec 20, 1960)
- Episode 3x12: The Illustrator (Dec 13, 1960)
- Episode 3x11: The Promoter (Dec 6, 1960)
- Episode 3x10: The Schoolmaster (Nov 29, 1960)
- Episode 3x09: Dead Cold Cash (Nov 22, 1960)
- Episode 3x08: Miss Milly (Nov 15, 1960)
- Episode 3x07: The Martinet (Nov 8, 1960)
- Episode 3x06: Baranca (Nov 1, 1960)
- Episode 3x05: Strange Town (Oct 25, 1960)
- Episode 3x04: The Pitchman (Oct 18, 1960)
- Episode 3x03: Seven (Oct 11, 1960)
- Episode 3x02: Woman from Hog Ridge (Oct 4, 1960)
- Episode 3x01: Trail of Hate (Sep 27, 1960)
- Episode 2x36: The Hangman (May 31, 1960)
- Episode 2x35: Nora (May 24, 1960)
- Episode 2x34: Meeting at Midnight (May 17, 1960)
- Episode 2x33: The Jailbird (May 10, 1960)
- Episode 2x32: The Fourflusher (May 3, 1960)
- Episode 2x31: The Prodigal (Apr 26, 1960)
- Episode 2x30: Sins of the Father (Apr 19, 1960)
- Episode 2x29: Shotgun Man (Apr 12, 1960)
- Episode 2x28: Smoke Screen (Apr 5, 1960)
- Episode 2x27: The Lariat (Mar 29, 1960)
- Episode 2x26: The Vision (Mar 22, 1960)
- Episode 2x25: The Deserter (Mar 15, 1960)
- Episode 2x24: A Time for Singing (Mar 8, 1960)
- Episode 2x23: The Grasshopper (Mar 1, 1960)
- Episode 2x22: Heller (Feb 23, 1960)
- Episode 2x21: The Spoiler (Feb 16, 1960)
- Episode 2x20: The Horse Traders (Feb 9, 1960)
- Episode 2x19: The Hero (Feb 2, 1960)
- Episode 2x18: The Visitors (Jan 26, 1960)
- Episode 2x17: A Case of Identity (Jan 19, 1960)
- Episode 2x16: Mail Order Groom (Jan 12, 1960)
- Episode 2x15: Day of the Hunter (Jan 5, 1960)
- Episode 2x14: Surveyors (Dec 29, 1959)
- Episode 2x13: The Coward (Dec 22, 1959)
- Episode 2x12: The Baby Sitter (Dec 15, 1959)
- Episode 2x11: The Legacy (Dec 8, 1959)
- Episode 2x10: Letter of the Law (Dec 1, 1959)
- Episode 2x09: The Spiked Rifle (Nov 24, 1959)
- Episode 2x08: Ordeal (Nov 17, 1959)
- Episode 2x07: Panic (Nov 10, 1959)
- Episode 2x06: Eddie's Daughter (Nov 3, 1959)
- Episode 2x05: Tension (Oct 27, 1959)
- Episode 2x04: Obituary (Oct 20, 1959)
- Episode 2x03: The Blowout (Oct 13, 1959)
- Episode 2x02: Bloodlines (Oct 6, 1959)
- Episode 2x01: The Patsy (Sep 29, 1959)
- Episode 1x40: The Mind Reader (Jun 30, 1959)
- Episode 1x39: Boomerang (Jun 23, 1959)
- Episode 1x38: Outlaw's Inheritance (Jun 16, 1959)
- Episode 1x37: The Raid (Jun 9, 1959)
- Episode 1x36: Stranger at Night (Jun 20, 1959)
- Episode 1x35: Blood Brothers (May 26, 1959)
- Episode 1x34: A Matter of Faith (May 19, 1959)
- Episode 1x33: The Money Gun (May 12, 1959)
- Episode 1x32: The Woman (May 5, 1959)
- Episode 1x31: The Angry Man (Apr 28, 1959)
- Episode 1x30: Three-Legged Terror (Apr 21, 1959)
- Episode 1x29: The Hawk (Apr 14, 1959)
- Episode 1x28: The Challenge (Apr 7, 1959)
- Episode 1x27: The Wrong Man (Mar 31, 1959)
- Episode 1x26: The Deadly Wait (Mar 24, 1959)
- Episode 1x25: One Went to Denver (Mar 17, 1959)
- Episode 1x24: The Trade (Mar 10, 1959)
- Episode 1x23: The Second Witness (Mar 30, 1959)
- Episode 1x22: The Boarding House (Feb 24, 1959)
- Episode 1x21: The Indian (Feb 17, 1959)
- Episode 1x20: The Deadeye Kid (Feb 10, 1959)
- Episode 1x19: Shivaree (Feb 3, 1959)
- Episode 1x18: The Photographer (Jan 27, 1959)
- Episode 1x17: The Retired Gun (Jan 20, 1959)
- Episode 1x16: The Sheridan Story (Jan 13, 1959)
- Episode 1x15: The Pet (Jan 6, 1959)
- Episode 1x14: The Gaucho (Dec 30, 1958)
- Episode 1x13: Young Englishman (Dec 23, 1958)
- Episode 1x12: The Angry Gun (Dec 16, 1958)
- Episode 1x11: The Apprentice Sheriff (Dec 9, 1958)
- Episode 1x10: New Orleans Menace (Dec 26, 1958)
- Episode 1x09: The Sister (Nov 25, 1958)
- Episode 1x08: The Safe Guard (Oct 18, 1958)
- Episode 1x07: Duel of Honor (Nov 11, 1958)
- Episode 1x06: Eight Hours to Die (Nov 4, 1958)
- Episode 1x05: The Brother-in-Law (Oct 28, 1958)
- Episode 1x04: The Marshal (Oct 21, 1958)
- Episode 1x03: End of a Young Gun (Oct 14, 1958)
- Episode 1x02: Home Ranch (Oct 7, 1958)
- Episode 1x01: The Sharpshooter (Sep 30, 1958)
Wagon Train (1957)
Guest starring as Jimmy Bennett
- Episode 1x28: The Sally Potter Story (Apr 9, 1958)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
Guest starring as Robbie
- Episode 1x15: The Hanging Cross (Dec 21, 1957)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Guest starring as Mark McCain
- Episode 2x21: The Sharpshooter (Mar 7, 1958)
Guest starring as Billy Prescott
- Episode 2x13: Man Unforgiving (Jan 3, 1958)
The Mickey Mouse Club (1955)
Starring as Johnny
(66 episodes)
- Episode 1955-12-30: Talent Round-Up Day (Dec 30, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-29: Circus Day (Dec 29, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-28: Anything Can Happen Day (Dec 28, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-27: Guest Star Day (Dec 27, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-26: Fun With Music Day (Dec 26, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-23: Talent Round-Up Day (Dec 23, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-22: Circus Day (Dec 22, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-21: Anything Can Happen Day (Dec 21, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-20: Guest Star Day (Dec 20, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-19: Fun With Music Day (Dec 19, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-16: Talent Round-Up Day (Dec 16, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-15: Circus Day (Dec 15, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-14: Anything Can Happen Day (Dec 14, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-13: Guest Star Day (Dec 13, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-12: Fun With Music Day (Dec 12, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-09: Talent Round-Up Day (Dec 9, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-08: Circus Day (Dec 8, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-07: Anything Can Happen Day (Dec 7, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-06: Guest Star Day (Dec 6, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-05: Fun With Music Day (Dec 5, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-02: Talent Round-Up Day (Dec 2, 1955)
- Episode 1955-12-01: Circus Day (Dec 1, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-30: Anything Can Happen Day (Nov 30, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-29: Guest Star Day (Nov 29, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-28: Fun With Music Day (Nov 28, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-25: Talent Round-Up Day (Nov 25, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-24: Circus Day (Thanksgiving) (Nov 24, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-23: Anything Can Happen Day (Nov 23, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-22: Guest Star Day (Nov 22, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-21: Fun With Music Day (Nov 21, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-18: Talent Round-Up Day (Nov 18, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-17: Circus Day (Nov 17, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-16: Anything Can Happen Day (Nov 16, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-15: Guest Star Day (Nov 15, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-14: Fun With Music Day (Nov 14, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-11: Talent Round-Up Day (Nov 11, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-10: Circus Day (Nov 10, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-09: Anything Can Happen Day (Nov 9, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-08: Guest Star Day (Nov 8, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-07: Fun With Music Day (Nov 7, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-04: Talent Round-Up Day (Nov 4, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-03: Circus Day (Nov 3, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-02: Anything Can Happen Day (Nov 2, 1955)
- Episode 1955-11-01: Guest Star Day (Nov 1, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-31: Fun With Music Day (Halloween) (Oct 31, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-28: Talent Round-Up Day (Oct 28, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-27: Circus Day (Oct 27, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-26: Anything Can Happen Day (Oct 26, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-25: Guest Star Day (Oct 25, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-24: Fun With Music Day (Oct 24, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-21: Talent Round-Up Day (Oct 21, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-20: Circus Day (Oct 20, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-19: Anything Can Happen Day (Oct 19, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-18: Guest Star Day (Oct 18, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-17: Fun With Music Day (Oct 17, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-14: Talent Round-Up Day (Oct 14, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-13: Circus Day (Oct 13, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-12: Anything Can Happen Day (Oct 12, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-11: Guest Star Day (Oct 11, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-10: Fun With Music Day (Oct 10, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-07: Talent Round-Up Day (Oct 7, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-06: Circus Day (Oct 6, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-05: Anything Can Happen Day (Oct 5, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-04: Guest Star Day (Oct 4, 1955)
- Episode 1955-10-03: Fun With Music Day (Oct 3, 1955)
- Episode 1955-07-17: Opening Day (Jul 17, 1955)
The Wonderful World of Disney (1954)
Guest starring as Johnny Crawford
- Episode 27x04: The Mouseketeer Reunion (Nov 23, 1980)
The Loretta Young Show (1953)
Guest starring as Bobby Wright
- Episode 5x05: The Little Witness (Nov 24, 1957)