...as Commissioner Ferris (1967).
John Crawford is a film and television actor, born on September 13th, 1920. He played Galactic High Commissioner Ferris in the first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled "The Galileo Seven".
Crawford has made well over 200 film and television appearances. Besides his role on Star Trek, he has also guest-starred on such classic TV shows as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Lost in Space, Hogan's Heroes, Bonanza, The Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels, The Bob Newhart Show, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Dallas. He also made several appearances on The Time Tunnel, a science fiction series which starred James Darren, Lee Meriwether, and Whit Bissell, and had a recurring role on Dynasty, starring Joan Collins and Lee Bergere. However, he is probably best known for portraying Sheriff Ep Bridges on the family drama The Waltons (1972-81) and for playing Major (and later Colonel) Harry Thompson in the 1979 mini-series From Here to Eternity and its subsequent series, which last for only one season in 1980. Both co-starred regular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Salome Jens (Female Changeling), while the mini-series also featured another DS9 actor, Andrew Robinson (Garak).
In 1976, he co-starred with Richard Kiley, Jonathan Banks, and Hal Baylor in the TV movie The Macahans, and in 1981, he co-starred with Richard Herd in another TV movie, Elvis and the Beauty Queen. His last TV appearance was in a 1986 episode of Harcastle and McCormick, starring Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly.
His many feature film credits include Without Reservations (1946, with Ian Wolfe), Mystery Street (1950, starring Ricardo Montalban and featuring Frank Overton), Right Cross (1950, also starring Ricardo Montalban and featuring Kenneth Tobey), I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951, with Richard Webb), Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952, with Leonard Nimoy), Scaramouche (1952, with Richard Hale), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952, with Lawrence Tierney), Salome (1953, with Dame Judith Anderson and Arnold Moss), The Man with the Gray Flannel Suit (1956, with DeForest Kelley), The Longest Day (1962, with Richard Beymer and Jeffrey Hunter), Jason and the Argonauts (1963, with Nancy Kovack), Captain Sinbad (1963, with Lawrence Montaigne), The Americanization of Emily (1964, with William Windom), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965, with Nehemiah Persoff, John Abbott, Michael Ansara, Mark Lenard, and Celia Lovsky), Duel at Diablo (1966, with John Hoyt), The Poseidon Adventure (1972, with Elizabeth Rogers), Napoleon and Samantha (1972, with Rex Holman), Trouble Man (1972, starring Robert Hooks and Paul Winfield), The Towering Inferno (1974, with Paul Comi and George D. Wallace), Night Moves (1975, with Harris Yulin and Kenneth Mars), Tilt (1979, with Don Stark), and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979, with Kenneth Mars, Robert Pine, Rex Holman, Nick Ramus, John Arndt, and Vince Deadrick). His latest film was The Boogens, released in 1982 and co-starring Jon Lormer.
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