Ichabod Crane (colonel) Ichabod Crane (colonel) Ichabod Bennet Crane (July 18, 1787 – October 5, 1857) was a career military officer for 48 years and the probable namesake of the protagonist in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Crane was born in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), New Jersey. He was the son of Gen. William Crane. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1809 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant, assigned to the USS "United States", a 44-gun frigate commanded by Stephen Decatur. He served aboard the "United States" for two years. Crane resigned from the Marines in April 1812,
Johnny Depp in which he portrayed real-life gangster John Dillinger. The next Depp-Burton collaboration was "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), in which he played the Mad Hatter alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Alan Rickman. The following year saw the release of the fourth installment in the "Pirates" series, "" (2011), which was again a box office success. Depp also voiced the title character, a lizard, in the animated film "Rango" (2011). Depp returned to Hunter S. Thompson's work with a film adaptation of the novel "The Rum Diary", which also became the first project undertaken by his production company, Infinitum Nihil.