Doug Crane

Alias:
Douglas Crane

Doug Crane was born and raised in Western New York and relocated back to the area in 2007. He has been a professional actor for over 40 years, acting in his first Equity play at the age of 15 at Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo. Doug continued to do regional theater and summer stock while attending Buffalo State College, and was also the house accompanist for two years at the popular singing waiter supper club The Granary Inn in Clarence Center, NY. He did two more plays at Studio Arena (including "Elizabeth the Queen" with Kim Hunter and George Chakiris) and eventually moved to New York City where he studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio and lived for 10 years. While studying, he landed his first television role in the soap opera "As The World Turns" and continued to work as a musical director and pianist, performing with singers in several cabarets (including the legendary Duplex in the Village) and on the road.  After moving to San Diego in 1990 he signed with his first agent on the West Coast and began to act in commercials, television series, and movies. Doug had co-starring roles in the TV movies "Crowned and Dangerous" (ABC) and "Bloodhounds" (USA), and in the long-running series "Silk Stalkings" and "Renegade". He was featured in the A&E Movie-of-the-Week "See Arnold Run" and the UPN series pilot "Mystery Girl", and had principal roles in the nightly Telenovela series "Fashion House" and "Wicked Wicked Games" (Fox). Doug appeared in commercials for Dell Computers, Cal-Direct Mortgage, and Legoland, and in corporate videos for clients such as Sprint, Pepsi, Sharp, Pfizer, Circuit City, Union Bank, Hewlett-Packard, and Kodak. As a commercial print model he has been seen in ad campaigns for Buick, Sanyo, Intel, and BMW.  Since being back in the Buffalo area Doug has been seen in 11 professional theater productions, primarily at Irish Classical Theater and MusicalFare Theater. He has appeared in 13 commercials, including Gates Vascular Institute, Metro Mattress, First Niagara Bank, Roswell Park, Raymour & Flanigan, Sports Authority, Evans Bank, and Time Warner, and has done print work for Xerox, Lifetime Health, Carestream Health, Harris Communications, and Woodbridge Wines.

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