Trivia

He is the older brother of actor Johnny Crawford on whose series, The Rifleman (1958), Bobby made several appearances as Mark's friend "Freddy".

Son of film editor Robert Crawford, whose same-named father was a horse jockey...meaning that he himself is actually Robert Lawrence Crawford III.

At the 11th Emmy Awards, he was nominated for Best Single Performance by an Actor, the same year that his younger brother Johnny was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and their father (Robert Crawford)was nominated for Best Film Editing for "The Bob Cummings Show".

He was a guest at the 2012 Memphis Film Festival's "A Gathering of Guns 4: A TV Western Reunion" at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

His paternal grandfather, Robert "Bobby" Crawford (1889-1941), was a horse jockey from Chicago who changed his occupation to song "plugger" and became a very successful music publisher as the founder of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson and Crawford Music Corp.

Produced several films directed by George Roy Hill after being dialogue coach for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. These include The Sting (also with Paul Newman and Robert Redford), Slap Shot (Newman), The Great Waldo Pepper (Redford), and Hill's penultimate film, The World According to Garp.

His maternal grandfather, Belgian violinist Alfred Megerlin (1880-1941), was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic (1918-22), the Minneapolis Symphony (1923-26) and The Los Angeles Philharmonic (1927-29).

His grandfather Crawford was born Samuel Faden to Russian Jewish parents, Isaac Faden and Rose Isserman. Robert Jr.'s other ancestry is English, German, Belgian Flemish, Scottish, and Swiss-German.