Ward Crane (May 18, 1890 – July 21, 1928) was an American silent film actor popular in comedies and dramas. Out of dozens of films, he is remembered as the handsome heavy to Buster Keaton's hero in Sherlock Jr. (1924).
Crane died aged 38 in Saranac Lake from pneumonia.
Selected filmography
- The Dark Star (1919)
- The Scoffer (1920)
- In the Heart of a Fool (1920)
- Harriet and the Piper (1920)
- The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920)
- The Luck of the Irish (1920)
- Something Different (1920)
- Heedless Moths (1921)
- French Heels (1922)
- No Trespassing (1922)
- Broadway Rose (1922)
- The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923)
- Within the Law (1923)
- Enemies of Children (1923)
- The Meanest Man in the World (1923)
- Gambling Wives (1924)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)
- Bread (1924)
- Empty Hands (1924)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- How Baxter Butted In (1925)
- Peacock Feathers (1925)
- Classified (1925)
- Borrowed Finery (1925)
- The Crimson Runner (1925)
- The Blind Goddess (1926)
- The Flaming Frontier (1926)
- Under Western Skies (1926)
- That Model from Paris (1926)
- Upstage (1926)
- The Lady in Ermine (1927) with Corinne Griffith and Francis X. Bushman
- The Beauty Shoppers (1927)
- The American (1927) (not released)
- The Rush Hour (1928)
- Honeymoon Flats (1928)