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Fred Crane (March 22, 1918 – August 21, 2008) was an American film and television actor and radio announcer. He is probably best known for his role as Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film, Gone with the Wind, speaking the opening lines in the movie during the opening scene with Scarlett O'Hara and Stuart Tarleton. Fred Crane was born as Herman Frederick Crane in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 22, 1918. He grew up along with his two brothers on General Pershing St., and went to the MacDonough #13 and Alsace Fortier schools. His father was a dentist, whose father and grandfather also were... MORE

Fred Crane (March 22, 1918 – August 21, 2008) was an American film and television actor and radio announcer. He is probably best known for his role as Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film, Gone with the Wind, speaking the opening lines in the movie during the opening scene with Scarlett O'Hara and Stuart Tarleton. Fred Crane was born as Herman Frederick Crane in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 22, 1918. He grew up along with his two brothers on General Pershing St., and went to the MacDonough #13 and Alsace Fortier schools. His father was a dentist, whose father and grandfather also were dentists. Fred was to break the trend, getting into acting and football at both Loyola and Tulane Universities. His first job in his teens was working in his spare time for an ice delivery service, back before electric refrigerators had caught on. Around the time he was 20, his mother gave him that legendary "$50 and a suitcase" to come out to Hollywood and get into motion pictures, impressed that a neighbor's daughter had signed a movie contract, but also knowing that her son had the mettle to perform (on stage at college, and later in film, television and radio). At first he stayed with relatives as LESS