布罗德里克·克劳福于1911年12月9日出生在美国费城，母亲是著名的百老汇戏剧和好莱坞影片的喜剧女演员海伦·布罗德里克。在母亲的影响下，他从小就开始参加歌舞杂耍剧和广播剧的演出， 并于1932年首次在纽约登台演戏。1935年在百老汇演出。1937年第一次登上银幕，二十二年后才在影片...
The burly character actor Gordon Jump will probably be best remembered for the role of the radio station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978). This is ironic, since in the first part of his working life he was found either behind a microphone or camera in stints with radio and TV stations in the Midwest, including producing jobs at stations in Kansas and Ohio.
