David Crowley (actor)
{{short description|Lebanese-American film and television actor}}
{{Infobox person
|name = David Crowley
|birth_name = David L. Crowley
|birth_place = Lebanon
|occupation = Film and television actor
|years_active = 1979–2004
}}
David L. Crowley is a Lebanese-American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Deputy Shingleton in the 1982 film First Blood.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/22/movies/first-blood.html|title='First Blood'|work=The New York Times|first=Janet|last=Maslin|date=October 22, 1982|access-date=July 2, 2025}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Classic_Movie_Fight_Scenes/D9k1DwAAQBAJ?hl=en|title=Classic Movie Fight Scenes: 75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989|page=282|first=Gene|last=Freese|publisher=McFarland|date=October 19, 1987|ISBN=9781476669434|via=Google Books}}
Life and career
Crowley was born in Lebanon. He began his screen career in 1979, appearing in the film Up River, starring Morgan Stevens and Jeff Corey. The next year, he appeared in the films Out of the Blue and Mr. Patman, and made his television debut in the CTV television series Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, starring Ian Tracey and Sam Snyders.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/28023/|title=Дэвид Л. Кроули|work=Кинопоиск|access-date=July 2, 2025|language=Russian}}
Later in his career, Crowley guest-starred in numerous television programs including MacGyver, Hill Street Blues, Dallas, Falcon Crest, Santa Barbara, Hardcastle and McCormick, Picket Fences, Hunter and Knots Landing, and played the recurring role of Michael Garibaldi's close friend Lou Welch in the first and second season of the space opera television series Babylon 5.{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_A_Z_of_Babylon_5/HFsx3J7lzeIC?hl=en|title=The A-Z of Babylon 5|first=David|last=Bassom|first2=J. Michael|last2=Straczynski|date=1997|publisher=Dell Publishing|ISBN=9780440223856|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Babylon_5_The_Coming_of_Shadows/3FE6GY1C6FkC?hl=en|title=Babylon 5: The Coming of Shadows|page=78|first=Jane|last=Killick|date=April 14, 1998|publisher=Random House Worlds|ISBN=9780345424488|via=Google Books}} He also appeared in films such as First Blood (as Deputy Shingleton), Cocktail, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Grey Fox and Unglued.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/41625%7C0/David-Crowley#overview|title=David Crowley|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=July 2, 2025}}
Crowley retired from acting in 2004, last appearing in the legal drama television series The Practice.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/david_l_crowley|title=David L. Crowley|work=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=July 2, 2025}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0189719}}
- {{TCM name|41625}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/david_l_crowley/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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Category:Lebanese emigrants to the United States
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors