Russell Crowe 2006. Crowe was born on 7 April 1964 in the Wellington suburb of Strathmore Park, the son of Jocelyn Yvonne (née Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom were film set caterers; his father also managed a hotel. Crowe's maternal grandfather, Stan Wemyss, was a cinematographer who was named an MBE for filming footage of World War II. Crowe's paternal grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, was from Wrexham, Wales, while one of Crowe's maternal great-great-grandmothers was Māori. Crowe also has English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Scottish, Swedish, and Welsh ancestry. He is a cousin of former New Zealand cricket captains
Edward Crowe He retired from the Civil Service in 1937, and was President of the Royal Society of Arts between 1941 and 1943. He died in Cairo, on 8 March 1960, aged 82, whilst visiting his son, Sir Colin Crowe, who was British Chargé d'Affaires in Egypt at the time of his father’s death. Edward Crowe Sir Edward Thomas Frederick Crowe KCMG (1877-1960), was a senior British civil servant and diplomat. Born on the Greek island of Zakynthos on 20 August 1877, Edward Crowe was educated at Bedford School. In 1897 he joined the Diplomatic Service and was appointed as a student