Frank Craven
Frank Craven

Frank Craven. Actor: Ons dorp. Frank Craven, the actor, director, playwright, and producer who achieved theatrical immortality as The Stage Manager in the original 1938 Broadway production and 1940 movie version of Thornton Wilder's classic Ons dorp (1940), was born into a theatrical family on August 24, 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts. The son of Ella Mayer Craven and John T. Craven, he first trod the boards in Boston as a...