Broderick Crawford's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

In the record

William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for December 9 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1950 Best Actor — All the King's Men win.

Academy Award record

• 1950 Best Actor — All the King's Men

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Broderick Crawford's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Broderick Crawford. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Broderick Crawford in the public record

Known for his "bulldog face and barking voice", he was initially a character actor often cast tough-guy or slob roles, but gained widespread acclaim for his portrayal of Willie Stark in the 1949 film adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. His performance earned him both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. He was later known for his starring role as Dan Mathews on the television series Highway Patrol (1955–59). Crawford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lester Crawford (né Lester Crawford Pendergast) and Helen Broderick, who were both vaudeville performers, as his grandparents had been. Lester appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s. Helen Broderick had a career in Hollywood comedies, including appearances in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals Top Hat and Swing Time. Notwithstanding his family's relative prominence, Crawford's childhood and adolescence remain sparsely documented, with a 1977 Saturday Night Live documentary segment essentially intimating that he was raised in the violent, alcohol-sodden and predominantly working class milieu of Midtown Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen district (long favored by actors due to its traditionally low rents and convenient proximity to various entertainment venues, most notably Broadway theatre). In the segment, he also reminisced of overnight sleepovers in Central Park with his friends.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Broderick Crawford (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 6 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Broderick Crawford, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

You care for people without disappearing. You're wired for harmony and devotion—attuned to others' needs and moved to meet them. You create peace and care in your relationships, and people feel tended to in your presence. Love, for you, is something you actively give.

Universal gave Crawford the leading role in a "B" picture, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940).

Paired on shared wording: give, love. This line comes from the Saturn position of the 9♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. Throughout his childhood, Crawford and his parents performed on the stage for producer Max Gordon.
2. Despite a desultory formal education, he was accepted by Harvard College, where he ultimately enrolled.
3. After three months of studies, he dropped out to work as a stevedore on the New York docks.
4. Crawford returned to vaudeville and radio, which included a period with the Marx Brothers in the radio comedy show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel.

Other winners with this card

• Al Pacino — 1993 Best Actor — Scent of a Woman
• Judy Holliday — 1951 Best Actress — Born Yesterday
• Leonardo DiCaprio — 2016 Best Actor — The Revenant
• Renée Zellweger — 2020 Best Actress — Judy
• Robert De Niro — 1981 Best Actor — Raging Bull
• Sean Penn — 2004 Best Actor — Mystic River; 2009 Best Actor — Milk

FAQ

What is Broderick Crawford's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. December 9 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Broderick Crawford's dates come from?

Birth date 1911-12-09 is the day-precision date on Broderick Crawford's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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