Adrian Crossett(1918-1968)
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Adrian Crossett was born into a family with an entertainment background. His mother was a concert cellist in the 1910s. Crossett started doing stage work in the 1930s as a teenager. He went to college at Syracuse University where he was the president of the Syracuse Dramatic Society.
After college, Crossett continued his career as a dancer appearing in the theatre productions of Hellzapoppin' and Panama Hattie. Like everybody of that period, his life was vastly impacted by the war. He was drafted into the army as a private where he used his background to produce plays for servicemen at Fort Niagara. After he was deployed to Europe during World War 2, he was wounded in action twice and was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant.
Once the war concluded, Crossett further pursued his career as an entertainer by moving to Hollywood. Movie musicals were starting to fade out and he began a lifelong friendship with Steve Cochran. Cochran kept Crossett employed as his stand-in for the rest of his career. Their relationship was so close that Cochran deemed Crossett his good luck charm and had him appear as an extra in every film that he did.
Like most stand-ins, Crossett had to find other work when Cochran wasn't filming a movie, so he was regularly used as a stand-in for Gene Nelson and as a stand-in for other Warner Brothers shows and movies when he was needed. He constantly appeared in their television westerns when he wasn't working as a stand-in for Cochran. After Cochran's career started to wind down, so did Crossett. Crossett eventually moved back to New York in 1967 after his mother passed away and he passed away the following year in 1968.
After college, Crossett continued his career as a dancer appearing in the theatre productions of Hellzapoppin' and Panama Hattie. Like everybody of that period, his life was vastly impacted by the war. He was drafted into the army as a private where he used his background to produce plays for servicemen at Fort Niagara. After he was deployed to Europe during World War 2, he was wounded in action twice and was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant.
Once the war concluded, Crossett further pursued his career as an entertainer by moving to Hollywood. Movie musicals were starting to fade out and he began a lifelong friendship with Steve Cochran. Cochran kept Crossett employed as his stand-in for the rest of his career. Their relationship was so close that Cochran deemed Crossett his good luck charm and had him appear as an extra in every film that he did.
Like most stand-ins, Crossett had to find other work when Cochran wasn't filming a movie, so he was regularly used as a stand-in for Gene Nelson and as a stand-in for other Warner Brothers shows and movies when he was needed. He constantly appeared in their television westerns when he wasn't working as a stand-in for Cochran. After Cochran's career started to wind down, so did Crossett. Crossett eventually moved back to New York in 1967 after his mother passed away and he passed away the following year in 1968.
