Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the dashing Richard Walsh in "Night Bride" (1927). Born into a large and impoverished family, he began his career appearing as a leading man in stock companies. While attending a casting call for bit players, he was discovered by director Marshall Farnum. Impressed by hid dark good looks, slim physique, and baritone voice, he took notice of his potential and arranged for him to begin a career in the film industry beginning with him appearing under his supervision per a supporting role in "Eugenics at Bar 'U' Ranch" (1914). From there, he would go on to flourish has a notable character actor in over 35 features; often typecast as boyfriends, husbands, fathers, detectives, reporters, educators, cowboys, sheriffs, policemen, white-collared workers, retail clerks, businessmen, chauffeurs, ushers, waiters, politicians, adventurers, curmudgeons, and eccentrics. He appeared in such feature films as "When the Cook Fell Ill" (1914), "The Grizzly Gulch Chariot Race" (1915), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), "After the Thin Man" (1936), "Bad Guy" (1937), "My Dear Miss Aldridge" (1937), "Three Comrades" (1938), "Judge Hardy's Children" (1938), "Dancing Co-Ed" (1939), "Sky Murder" (1940), "I Take This Woman" (1940), "Dulcy" (1940), "The Big Store" (1941), "Married Bachelor" (1941), "Shadow of the Thin Man" (1941), "The Bugle Sounds" (1942), "Stand by for Action" (1942), "Everything But the Truth" (1956), and "Jeanne Eagles" (1957). During the advent of television, he appeared in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Telephone Time" and "State Trooper". During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, had been supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was the older brother of Academy Award winning actress Joan Crawford, had been a member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Catholic church, presided as a chairman for his local charters of the American Red Cross and the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and he was married to beautician Jessie Burress from 1928 to 1929 and actress Kasha Haroldi from 1931 to 1935 (both unions ended in divorce and from his second marriage, he produced one daughter, actress and dancer Joan LeSueur Lowe). Upon withdrawing from acting in 1957, he spent the final years of his life living in semi seclusion at the Royal Viking Hotel in Los Angeles, California, where he worked as both a desk clerk and switchboard operator, until his death from the complications of a ruptured appendix.