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Timeline

 

1955
Stage - Let's Make an Opera – by Benjamin Britten

1958
Screen - Soap Box Derby
Screen - Blow Your Own Trumpet

1960
Screen - A French Mistress

1961
Screen - Two Living, One Dead
TV - ITV's Sir Francis Drake

1962
Screen - The War Lover

1963
Stage - Coriolanus - directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie at Nottingham Playhouse
Screen - Two Left Feet

1964
TV - Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life

1965
Screen - The Knack...and How to Get It - directed by Richard Lester and winner of Best Picture at Cannes Film Festival
Awards - Variety Club of Great Britian's Most Promising Newcomer

1966
Screen - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - starring Buster Keaton, Zero Mostel and Phil Silvers
Screen - The Jokers

1967
Stage - Broadway debut: Black Comedy - starring Lynn Redgrave and Geraldine Page, Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Screen - How I Won the War - starring John Lennon, directed by Richard Lester

1968
TV - Home Sweet Honeycombe, British TV series

1969
Screen - The Jokers - starring Oliver Reed, Universal Studios
Screen - Hello Dolly! - starring Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau, and directed by Gene Kelly

1970
Screen - The Games - Twentieth Century Fox's
Screen - Hello-Goodbye - Twentieth Century Fox's
TV - The Policeman and the Cook

1971
Stage - No Sex Please, We're British - Strand Theatre, London

1972
Screen - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - starring Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore

1973
TV - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

1974
Stage - Billy - John Barry's musical, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Awards - TV Times Funniest Man
Awards - The Sun's TV Actor of the Year
Awards - Variety Club of Great Britian's Show Business Personality of the Year

1975
TV - Royal Variety Show for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh

1976
Stage - Same Time, Next Year Princes of Wales Theatre, London

1978
TV - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em – new season
TV - Sorry – a BBC Play for Today, by Valclav Havel

1979
Stage - Flowers for Algernon Queen's Theatre, London
TV - UK TV - Chalk and Cheese

1981 – 1983
Stage - Barnum – a Harold Fielding's production, at the London Palladium
Screen - Condorman - Walt Disney Production's, starring Oliver Reed and Barbara Carrera
Awards - Society of West End Theatre's Actor of the Year in a Musical (1981)
Awards - Olivier Award Best Actor in a Musical (1982)

1984 – 1985
Stage - Barnum - Manchester Opera House and London's Victoria Palace Theatre

1986 -1991
Stage - The Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber's, directed by Harold Prince at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, Majestic Theatre, New York, and Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles
Awards - Olivier Award Best Actor in a Musical (1987)
Awards - Variety Club of Great Britian's Personality of the Year (1987)
Honors - Designated Officer of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1987)
Honors - Named President of the Sick Children's Trust (1987)
Awards - Tony Award Best Actor in a Musical (1988)
Awards - NY Drama Desk Award Best Actor in a Musical (1988)
Awards - Outer Critics' Circle Award Best Actor in a Musical (1988)
Awards - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award Distinguished Achievement in Theatre (1989)

1991 – 1992
Stage - World Tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
TV - Royal Variety Show for Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince and Princess of Wales


1993
Screen - Once Upon A Forest – Voice of Cornelius
Honors - Madame Tussaud's Museum in London unveils wax likeness.
Honors - Grammy Nominations for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Perform. For A Touch of Music in the Night and Best Pop Perform by a Duo for duet with Barbara Streisand

1994 – 1996
Stage - EFX MGM Grand, Las Vegas

1997
TV - South Bank Show and Bravo The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Honors - Named Living Legend for his performance in The Phantom of the Opera by
Live! Magazine

1998
Stage - An Evening with Michael Crawford in Concert – tour
TV - Michael Crawford in Concert directed by Dwight Hemion

2002 – 2003
Stage - Dance of the Vampires

2004 – Present
Stage - Woman in White
Awards - "Outstanding Stage Performance" award at the Variety Club Awards in London (2004)
Awards - "Best Supporting Actor in a Musical" award from Whatsonstage.com (2005)