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Frank Craven (August 24, 1875 – September 1, 1945) was an American stage and film actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Frank Craven (1875-1945) was a versatile theatrical and film personality who wrote, directed and starred in many plays and movies. He is best known for his role as The Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (1940), which won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted for the screen.
Frank Craven was an American actor, director, playwright, and producer who was best known for his performance as the stage manager in his production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (performed 1938) and for his domestic comedy The First Year (1920).
Frank Craven is known as an Actor, Writer, Theatre Play, Story, Director, Additional Writing, Screenplay, and Dialogue Coach. Some of his work includes Son of Dracula, City for Conquest, In This Our Life, Keeper of the Flame, Miracles for Sale, Barbary Coast, Our Town, and Pittsburgh.
Frank Craven was a prolific actor and writer who appeared in over 100 films from 1932 to 1945. He worked with stars like James Cagney, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy and Marlene Dietrich, and wrote the screenplay for 'Our Town' (1940).
Actor, director and playwright. Once a child actor, he scored his most notable success playing the original Stage Manager ... From: Craven, Frank in The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre. Reference entries. Craven, Frank (1875)
Shortly after 8 p.m. on January 22, 1938, the veteran actor Frank Craven appeared on stage at the McCarter Theaterin Princeton, N.J., and began to speak. “This play is called ‘Our Town,’” he said. “It was written by Thornton Wilder.”.
