Richard Crane
Birthday: 1918-06-06
Place of Birth: New Castle, Indiana , USA
Biography: Richard Ollie Crane (June 6, 1918–March 9, 1969) was a veteran character actor whose career spanned three decades in films and television. His early career included many uncredited performances in feature films made in the 1940s. He may be best-remembered for his portrayal of the title role in the TV science fiction series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, which ran for two seasons starting in 1954. Crane died of a heart attack at the age of 50. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Triple Threat
An arrogant college football player turns professional, taking his bad attitude with him....
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Day is Done
During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate...
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A Lady Without Passport
An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United ...
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The Neanderthal Man
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive an...
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The Alligator People
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified ...
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Behind Green Lights
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the le...
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Guns Don't Argue
The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face...
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No Man's Woman
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no short...
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Menace from Outer Space
A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Sp...
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This Time for Keeps
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult....
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House of the Damned
An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhapp...
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Waterfront at Midnight
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by ...
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Crash of Moons
A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released as a ...
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Devil's Partner
An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and blac...
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Beyond the Moon
This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's all...
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Winning of the West
A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang....
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Boy Who Caught a Crook
The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster....
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha....
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The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy....
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Happy Land
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist beli...
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The Eternal Sea
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury....
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Manhunt in Space
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship....
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Dynamite
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at o...
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Mysterious Island
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end ...
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Susan and God
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group....
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No Time at All
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from r...
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Man in the Saddle
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires ...
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Angel on the Amazon
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals ...
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Bailout at 43,000
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a...
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13 Fighting Men
A group of Union Army soldiers is charged with protecting a box of gold and getting it to its rightf...
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Riders of the Deadline
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape ...
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Keeping Company
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents)...
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Someone to Remember
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is t...
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Campus Honeymoon
Bob Watson and Ricky Adams, and the Hughes twins, Skipper and Patricia, cannot register at Opalocka ...
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Patrolling the Ether
1940. Sixteen year old Phillip is one of a number of amateur radio operators across the US, doing it...
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Leadville Gunslinger
Arriving in Leadville, Marshal Rocky Lane finds that his friend Nugget is in financial trouble. Nugg...
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The Phantom Plainsmen
In 1937 the life in out West has not changed much. The boys are working at the Wyoming ranch of Capt...
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Thundering Caravans
Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wa...
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Meet the Wildcat
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod W...
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Woman They Almost Lynched
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, ...
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Forbidden Moon
Rocky Jones is dispatched to investigate an SOS received from a space station. He finds that the sta...
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For God and Country
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father ...
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Eagle Squadron
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in lov...
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Battle Flame
The trials and tribulations of a platoon of U.S. Marines, led by 1st Lt. Frank Davis, during the Kor...
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None Shall Escape
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed ...
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Arthur Takes Over
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now m...
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Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
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Cry 'Havoc'
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A ...
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challe...
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So Proudly We Hail
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a...
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Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
Two young pilot trainees arrive for primary flight training and meet their instructor, Navy pilot Lt...
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In the Navy
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tomm...
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Keep 'Em Flying
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to...
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Please Don't Touch Me!
A woman who is unable to have sex with her husband goes to a psychiatrist for help. He sends her to ...
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The Gypsy Moon
Rocky Jones and his buddies happen upon two strange moons orbiting each other. They soon discover th...
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The Flying Serpent
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetz...
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Johnny Comes Flying Home
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight...
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Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe
Dangerous climate changes are ravaging Earth and the U.S. government requests an investigation by ma...
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Bobby Ware Is Missing
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child un...
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The Deep Six
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars...
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Proceed and Report
Ensign Murphy is ordered to his first duty in the U.S. Navy. He learns (often the hard way) the mean...
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This Is the Army
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded i...
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Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
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