Actor and singer Johnny Crawford, best known for starring alongside Chuck Connors in the late 1950's and early 1960's TV series The Rifleman, passed away yesterday of Alzheimer's Disease. He was 75.
Crawford was an original member of The Mouseketeers and later a pop singer with a few modest hits in the early 1960's. But it is The Rifleman for which he will always be remembered as it airs regularly to this day more than half a century after it ceased production. While many tune in to see villains foolish enough to mess with young Mark McCain and Luccas put them to an end, the father-son relationship between the two has given the show an endurance beyond its setting and time.
It is hard to think of Crawford as something other than a child. When you look at his innocence you don't think of someone who will grow old much less be afflicted with Alzheimer's. But the line between fantasy and reality is invariably erased. But our memories carry on. R.I.P.
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