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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, the actor, director, playwright, and producer who achieved theatrical immortality as The Stage Manager in the original 1938 Broadway production and 1940 movie version of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town (1940), was born into a theatrical family on August
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).
Shortly after 8 p.m. on January 22, 1938, the veteran actor Frank Craven appeared on stage at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., and began to speak. “This play is called ‘Our Town,’” he said. “It was written by Thornton Wilder.”
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 began his acting career with roles in such films as the Janet Gaynor drama 'State Fair' (1933), 'City Limits' (1934) and the James Cagney dramatic comedy 'He Was Her Man'...
Overview. Frank Craven. (1875—1945) Quick Reference. (b. Boston, Mass., 1875; d. Beverly Hills, Calif., 1 Sept. 1945) 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 »
