Broderick Crawford
Chief Dan Mathews
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- 1. Prison Break Oct 3, 1955
- A vicious prison escapee ambushes a highway officer and steals his gun and uniform.
- 2. Machine Story Copter Oct 10, 1955
- Two men steal a giant computer and ask for $100,000 in ransom.
- 3. Reckless Driving Oct 17, 1955
- Tragedy strikes when impatient traveling salesman refuses to slow down.
Highway Patrol: With Broderick Crawford, Art Gilmore, William Boyett, Vance Skarstedt. Powerful patrol cars, fast motorcycles, and superheterodyne two-way radios combine to fight crime on the rural highways of America's wide open spaces.
In 1955, television producer Frederick Ziv of ZIV Television Productions offered Crawford the lead role as "Dan Mathews" in the police drama Highway Patrol, which dramatized law enforcement activities of the California Highway Patrol (CHP).
Highway Patrol/TV Series [All Seasons] Full-Episodes. A true classic from the 50's starring Broderick Crawford as a no nonsense head of The Force. I like watching these episodes when...
Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state. [ citation needed ] Mathews had "no particular title — just the boss," Crawford said.
One of his most visible screen appearances took place on television, in a 1977 episode of CHiPS that played off of his work in Highway Patrol, with Crawford making a gag appearance as himself, a motorist pulled over and cited for a moving violation by the series' motorcycle police officers.
Broderick Crawford is best remembered for two roles: his Oscar-winning turn as Willie Stark in All the King's Men (1949) and as Chief Dan Mathews on the syndicated TV series Highway Patrol (1955).
Motorcycle A: Directed by Lambert Hillyer. With Broderick Crawford, Jack Edwards, Paula Houston, Clint Eastwood. A café owner's grudge against motorcyclists leads to the accidental death of a Highway Patrol officer.
Aug 14, 2016 · Nowhere is this more evident than when he has to protect children and deals with them in the most gentle manner. Broderick Crawford's brilliant and charismatic portrayal of Chief Dan Mathews...
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Apr 26, 1986 · RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Actor Broderick Crawford, a heavyweight tough guy who played the no-nonsense Chief Matthews on the television series 'Highway Patrol' and won an Oscar for the movie...
In their remote mountain cabin, a couple finds an injured man - feverish, hungry, and armed. The woman tends to him while her husband notifies the ranger, who radios the Highway Patrol. The frightened young hoodlum is running away from a murder he did not commit.
