Born Frank Radford Crawley in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In The Film Companion (1984), Peter Morris wrote of Crawley: "...considered the Godfather of Canadian film and Canada's answer to Sam Goldwyn." Canadian producer, director and cinematographer who shotand directed a series of short films in the 1940s (ICELAND ON THE PRIAIRIES and CANADIAN LANDSCAPE, both 1941; QUEBEC: PATH OF CONQUEST and GREAT LAKES, both 1942). In 1959, he was executive producer of the Canadian TV series "R.C.M.P." He produced AMANITA PESTILENS (1963, which starred Geneviéve Bujold in her first screen appearance), was executive producer of THE LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY (1964, starring Robert Shaw and Mary Ure), produced a version of HAMLET (1973), produced a documentary biography of singer Janis Joplin, JANIS (1974) and HEARTLAND REGGAE (1980) with Bob Marley and the Wailers. He directed the 1964 animated special "Return to Oz" (1964). Crawley accepted Canada's first Academy Award for a documentary feature film, March 29, 1976 for THE MAN WHO SKIED DOWN EVEREST (1975). In his acceptance speech, he said, "This is an American award for a Canadian film about a Japanese adventurer who skied down a mountain in Nepal." He was the subject of the Canadian Film Institute's BUDGE: THE ONE TRUE HAPPINESS OF F.R. "BUDGE" CRAWLEY, a one-hour documentary examining the career of the maverick Canadian film producer. In 1999, journalist Barbara Wade Rose published a biography of Crawley -- Budge: What Happened to Canada's Kings of Film.  Documentary (Features) 1975: THE MAN WHO SKIED DOWN EVEREST - Producer (w. James Hager & Dale Hartleben) 1 nomination, 1 Award