In my continuing passion for finding extras in old movies, here’s an interesting connection between favorites Robert Fuller and Johnny Crawford. They were both extras in The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956) starring Gregory Peck. Fuller appears as a soldier in a scene at a field medical station. This scene also features DeForest Kelley; both actors went on to play well-known television doctors. Johnny Crawford plays a boy in Italy delivering a box of groceries. His older brother, Robert Crawford Jr, co-starred in Laramie with Fuller three years later.
Robert Fuller in The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
Robert Fuller in The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
Johnny Crawford in The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
This entire movie is on YouTube. Crawford’s moment is at 0:29:50, and Fuller appears at the 0:49:45 mark.
Posted by Shay on July 14, 2012 at 3:50 pm
My chief gripe with war films is that the actors in them are always either too old or too clean. At least RF looks just the right age to be a private!
(but realistically, he should be filthy).
Nice screencaps. Now, how about some more John Smith?
Posted by Nelia Green on July 16, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Now, I want to watch “The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit” again for the umpteenth time. Thanks for making movie watching even more interesting…