Today the name Broderick Crawford means nothing to twenty-first century young people. As far as theyÕre concerned, All The KingÕs Men is a miserable movie starring Sean Penn! They have absolutely no idea that way back in the twentieth century Broderick Crawford was a highly-paid major box-office Hollywood film star who made over ninety motion pictures. He also won the prized Academy Award Oscar for ÒBest Actor In A Starring RoleÓ. On top of that he starred in an enormously successful, blockbuster television series that ran for decades in world-wide syndication making him an unpaid babysitter for an entire generation of baby boomers. In the pages of this book, the reader will discover an extraordinary actor and film star with an incredible body of work. He enjoyed a durable career in show business spanning forty-five years that hit HollywoodÕs lofty heights and bottom-scraping depths more than once.