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MICHAEL CRAWFORD FACTS...

MICHAEL CRAWFORD WAS BORN MICHAEL PATRICK DUMBELL-SMITH ON JANUARY 19, 1942, IN SALISBURY, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO CRAWFORD,HE SAYS, WHEN HE WAS THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. HIS FATHER A RAF PILOT WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN WWII SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE MICHAELS BIRTH. MICHAELS MOTHER, DORIS, WAS MARRIED AGAIN WHEN MICHAEL WAS FOUR, TO A STORE MANAGER NAMED INGRAM. SHE DIED WHEN MICHAEL WAS 21, BUT LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE MICHAEL HAVE HIS FIRST SUCCESS ON THE LONDON STAGE, IN NEIL SIMON'S COME BLOW YOUR HORN. "SHE HAD A GREAT WARMTH,BUT SHE WASN'T ALL THAT WORLDLY," MICHAEL SAYS. "NEITHER AM I."

MICHAEL MET GABRIELLE LEWIS AT A LONDON DISCOTHEQUE WHERE SHE WAS THE DISC JOCKEY. THEY MARRIED IN PARIS IN 1965 AND BECAME THE PARENTS OF TWO DAUGHTERS, EMMA AND LUCY. THE MARRIAGE ENDED IN 1975 BUT MICHAEL AND GABRIELLE REMAIN CLOSE FRIENDS.

MICHAEL WAS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY HIS MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER "NAN" AS HE CALLS HER, ALWAYS HAD ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE IN HIM AND CONSTANTLY URGED HIM TO SING. SHE WAS 99 WHEN SHE DIED; THE LAST THING SHE SAID TO MICHAEL WAS,"MICHAEL, YOU MUST SING." THE NEXT ROLE HE WON WAS THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

MICHAEL CRAWFORD STANDS 5"10" AND WEIGHS 10 1/2 STONE (THE BRITISH EQUIVALENT OF 147 POUNDS.) HIS NATURALLY CURLY HAIR IS SANDY BROWN, AND HIS EYES ARE BLUE-GRAY.

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