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Michael Crawford

Mostly brought up by a single mother, Michael Crawford's first experience of singing was as a church chorister. He made his first stage appearance playing Sammy the Little Sweep in a school production of Benjamin Britten's Let's Make An Opera, which resulted in an offer from the English Opera Group to appear in another Britten opera, Noye's Fludde. This was when he changed his surname from Smith to Crawford to avoid confusion with another performer of the same name and, still in his teens, he made numerous other appearances in stage musicals. Crawford made his movie debut playing...