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- Birth nameHoward Francis Marion-Crawford
- Nickname
- Boney
- Howard Marion-Crawford was born on January 17, 1914 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969). He was married to Germaine Tighe-Umbers, Junia Crawford, Mary Wimbush and Jeanne Scott-Gunn. He died on November 24, 1969 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- SpousesGermaine Tighe-Umbers(1958 - ?)Junia Crawford(1950 - ?) (divorced)Mary Wimbush(1946 - 1954) (divorced, 1 child)Jeanne Scott-Gunn (divorced, 1 child)
- Memorable as one of TV's first portrayers of Dr John H. Watson, opposite Ronald Howard, in 1954's "Sherlock Holmes" series.
- All his radio work earned him the epitaph 'the man with the 1,000 voices.
- British character actor, often seen as military or clubroom types in British films and on television. Trained at RADA, where his classmates included Ida Lupino, Anthony Quayle, Vivien Leigh and Trevor Howard. Had a long career as a voice actor in radio drama from the 1930's. He won the Daily Mirror's National Radio Award as outstanding radio actor for 1952-53. He was cast in the part of Dr. Watson in the TV series Sherlock Holmes (1954) on the strength of his voice work for the BBC Home Service on "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" in 1948.
- During World War II, he served with the RAF as a navigator, rising to the rank of sergeant.
- The exact cause of his relatively early death at age 55 has been disputed; newspaper reports in 1969 claimed that he had "choked to death on his own vomit".
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