As per our current Database, John Craven has been died on 24 November, 1995 at Salt Point, New York, USA.
When John Craven die, John Craven was 79 years old.
| Popular As | John Craven |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 79 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Cancer |
| Born | June 22, 1916 (New York City, New York, USA) |
| Birthday | June 22 |
| Town/City | New York City, New York, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
John Craven’s zodiac sign is Cancer. According to astrologers, the sign of Cancer belongs to the element of Water, just like Scorpio and Pisces. Guided by emotion and their heart, they could have a hard time blending into the world around them. Being ruled by the Moon, phases of the lunar cycle deepen their internal mysteries and create fleeting emotional patterns that are beyond their control. As children, they don't have enough coping and defensive mechanisms for the outer world, and have to be approached with care and understanding, for that is what they give in return.
John Craven was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
John Craven will be remembered as the lad who dreamed of love and the moon atop a stepladder in the Broadway version of "Our Town" for a season and another on the road, while his father, Frank Craven, officiated as the genial Stage Manager and commentator of that play.
Originally intending to be a surgeon, John was deflected by heredity to an assistant stage managership in "Babes in Arms." He had a busy career on Broadway and in film from the 1930s through the 1950s.
He slipped into movies quietly, with a minor role in The Human Comedy (1943), but he played an orphaned young soldier with fine simplicity. There was a quality of entirely masculine sweetness in his face missing from the screen since Richard Barthelmess starred in the silents.
Actually, John was hardly an unknown: Hollywood was strangely late in discovering him, as he played leads in Broadway plays for four years. The handicap of a famous father may have slowed his start, due to such comments as, "Oh yes - Frank Craven's' boy".
His father, the veteran character actor, was responsible for John's first chance on the stage - and almost for the loss of that chance. Frank had just been given the lead in the play "Our Town". John stopped at the producer's office one day, looking for his father, and was offered the juvenile lead.
Frank, who didn't want the totally inexperienced youngster to begin with such a tough job, almost caused John to lose the job, but young Craven overruled him and came through like a veteran. Frank Craven was selected for the lead in the film version of Our Town (1940), but John was not.
The role went to a young William Holden instead, and the rest is Hollywood history. John was a fine actor who deserved more acclaim, and who warrants a closer look by film historians.
