Herman Frederick Crane Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Frederic William Hotchkiss Crane (November 4, 1840 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut – April 27, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York) played in Major League Baseball. Joining the Brooklyn Atlantics club in 1862 with teammates Joe Start and Jack Chapman from the Enterprise club, his best season was in 1865 when he scored 71 runs in 18 games (second, behind Start) for the undefeated champions.
Made only two cinema films in his career (the rest were for TV) - his first, as Brent Tarleton, one of the red-haired Tarleton twins who woos Scarlett O'Hara at the beginning of Gone with the Wind (1939), made him a minor cult figure.
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Was hospitalized for a few weeks with complications related to diabetes, but died of a blood clot in his lung in a hospital near Atlanta, Georgia.
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Was reportedly the oldest surviving adult credited male cast member of Gone with the Wind (1939) at the time of his death at age 90.
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Became a long-time friend to Superman actor George Reeves, who played the other Tarleton twin, Stuart Tarleton, in GWTW. In fact, Fred was Reeves' best man at his first wedding in 1940. He never believed that Reeves committed suicide in 1959, but that someone else shot him to death.
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Became a part-time announcer at Los Angeles classical radio station KFAC in 1946, although he continued to act sparingly on TV. In the mid-1960s he began working full time at KFAC.
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Was also the program director of the AM side of the KFAC station in the 1970s in addition to hosting his own shows.
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KFAC was sold, and the new owners fired Fred and numerous other members of the "Old Guard" in 1987. He and the others later won an age-discrimination lawsuit against the radio station.
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Married five times. Children: Haydee, Terri, Shelley, David and Jason.
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Attended Tulane University and Loyola University in New Orleans while acting in local theater productions.
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Cousin of silent screen actress Leatrice Joy. It was she who took him to the Selznick studio where his Southern accent caught the attention of a casting director for GWTW. He read the opening scene with Vivien Leigh and immediately got the part and was put under a 13-week contract for $50 a week.
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The opening scene for GWTW with Scarlett and the Tarleton twins was shot three different times altogether. The first time the twins' dyed red hair was deemed too curly. The second take was reshot when it appeared that Scarlett's dress was too low-cut for the period.
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Bought an antebellum mansion in Barnesville, a town just south of Atlanta and turned it into a bed-and-breakfast with a complete "Gone With the Wind" museum. In 2007, due to his health issues, Fred and his wife auctioned off the home and its memorabilia.
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He was a frequent volunteer guest host on PBS pledge drives in support of public television.
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For some time, he was also a talent instructor at Crossroads of the World, where he recalls having worked with Gene L. Coon of Star Trek fame.
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Recently owned a registered historic 1846 Confederate home and Civil War hospital in Barnesville, Georgia, which he and his wife Terry operated as the Tarleton Oaks Bed & Breakfast for several years.
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For over 40 years, Fred Crane was an announcer at the classical-music radio station KFAC AM and FM in Los Angeles, until that station was bought and its format changed. He was widely known and praised for his voice and his dramatic reading ability. He had done some stage work, too, or, in his words, "trod the boards.".
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June 1998: A guest at the premiere of the restored version of Gone with the Wind (1939)
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
General Hospital
1987
TV Series
Toy Shop Owner
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1965
TV Series
Cyborg Voices
Lost in Space
1965
TV Series
Alpha Control Technician
Lawman
1960-1961
TV Series
Jury Foreman / Lawyer / Larrabee
Surfside 6
1961
TV Series
Policeman
The Gay Amigo
1949
Henchman Duke
Gone with the Wind
1939
Stuart Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Biography
2000
TV Series documentary
Our World
1987
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
Good Morning America
1983
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
Gone with the Wind (1939) as Stuart Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau
The Gay Amigo (1949) as Henchman Duke
Lawman (1960-1961) as Jury Foreman / Larrabee / Lawyer
$800,000
