Michael Crawford

He starred in "Dance of the Vampires" on Broadway during late 2002 & early 2003 and is currently appearing in Lloyd Webber's new musical "The Woman in White" which opened at the Palace Theatre, London in September 2004. Doohan currently lives in Redmond, Washington. At the gala, Michael was presented with a Birthday cake. Doohan has four children with Janet Young (married 1949;divorced 1964) and three children with his current wife Wende (married 1975). He also performed "Music of the Night" at the Inaugural Gala for President George Bush in Washington DC on Jan 19th 1989. He was immortalised with a star in Hollywood's Walk of Fame on August 31 of the same year. Crawford has played leading roles in films such as Hello, Dolly (1968), but more often appears on stage, having starred in West End productions such as Billy (based on the novel, Billy Liar) (1974), Barnum (1981) (one of the longest runs by a leading man) and, most notably, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (1986), for which he won an Olivier Award (Best Actor in a Musical), a Tony Award (Best Performance By An Actor In a Lead Role, Musical), a N.Y's Drama Desk Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theatre (Lead Performance). In 2004, Doohan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

It was one of the BBC's most successful series of all time. Doohan suffers from Parkinson's disease, diabetes and lung fibrosis. Although he most often appears in musicals, he became known to millions for his role as the hapless Frank Spencer in the television sitcom, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, for which he performed most of his own stunts. Because of this the Milwaukee School of Engineering granted Doohan an honorary degree in engineering. Crawford began his acting career as a seven-year-old, appearing in the première of Benjamin Britten's work for children, Let's Make an Opera. Scotty's exploits as the redoubtable Chief Engineer aboard the Enterprise inspired many students to pursue a career in engineering. Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith (born January 19, 1942), better known as Michael Crawford, is one of Britain's leading actors, so much so that he was voted into the Top "100 Greatest Britons" in a 2002 poll sponsored by the BBC. Stirling:.

Doohan collaborated on a series of three science fiction novels with S.M. Over the next 20 years, other linguists expanded Klingon into a full language of its own. A little-known fact about Doohan is that he is also a linguist, and devised the Vulcan and Klingon language dialogue heard in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. When the Star Trek franchise was revived, Doohan could once again work as an actor.

He was able to support himself off of personal appearances. After the series ended, Doohan found himself typecast and had a hard time getting other acting roles. In later years he would revisit this casting process at Star Trek conventions, demonstrating a variety of possible engineer voices and characters. Doohan acknowledged that he believed "all the world's best engineers have been Scottish." So, Doohan was cast as the Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise, Montgomery Scott.

Roddenberry asked Doohan which one he liked the best. When he auditioned for Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, Doohan did several different accents. Doohan always had a gift for using foreign accents. Returning from the war, Doohan started his acting career with a radio show appearance on January 12, 1946.

In the battle, he lost the middle finger of his right hand. During World War II, he participated in the invasion of Juno Beach on D-Day as a captain with the Royal Canadian Artillery. Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia; his family later moved to Sarnia, Ontario where he attended high school at "SCITS," Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School and excelled in math and science. James Montgomery Doohan (born March 3, 1920) is a Canadian actor and linguist best known for his portrayal of "Scotty" in the television and movie series Star Trek.

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