Michael Crawford became famous in the TV comedy Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
(1973-1975, and 1978), playing Frank Spencer
, a bumbling
clot who did terrific slapstick
routines (he did all his own hair-raising stunt
s) and couldn't get a job
for more than a day wihout leaving large piles of wreckage
and a few nervous breakdown
s in his wake.
He wore a beret, his catchphrase was a limp "Ooh, Betty" to his wife (Betty was played by Michelle Dotrice), and occasionally he tried and failed to exert his authority by asserting "I'm a man!". They did however -- somehow -- have a daughter Jessica.
The first reaction of most people on hearing that someone called Michael Crawford was going to appear in a musical was probably, "Not the Michael Crawford? Not Frank Spencer? But he's not a singer, is he?".
Dr Michael Crawford is a scientist
at the Institute of Brain Chemistry
and Human Nutrition
in London. In his 1989 book The Driving Force: Food, Evolution and the Future
he presented significant evidence
in favour of the Aquatic Ape Theory
, principally that the modern human
brain is unlikely to have developed on a savannah
diet, but could have found the long-chain fatty acid
s it is built from easily in the seafood
of a littoral