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The Best Actors
The Best Actors is an informational podcast dedicated to the winners of a Best Actor Academy Award. Going in sequence by year, I examine an actor's biography, filmography, winning performance, movie history, acting styles, and more.
The Best Actors
Broderick Crawford, Parlaying an Oscar into a Career, 1949
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Chuck Latovich
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Season 1
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Episode 20
This week, I highlight the terrific Oscar-winning performance by Broderick Crawford as politician Willy Stark in ALL THE KING'S MEN. Prior to his Academy Award, Crawford mostly acted in "B" pictures, and afterwards, he mostly took on supporting roles in films, but he also became a mainstay in the then new medium of television, where he struck financial, if not exactly artistic, gold.