The following year he began acting and doing stunt work in Bachelor Mother and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, respectively.

Crockett was an associate producer for four films directed by Blake Edwards in the 1960s: The Pink Panther (1963), The Great Race (1965), What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

A few years later, he became a second unit director for Edwards' Darling Lili (1970), and Wild Rovers (1971).

In 1976, Crockett appeared in his final acting role as President Gerald Ford (whom he strongly resembled) in Edwards' The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

According to Blake Edwards’ wife, Julie Andrews, in her book “Home Work,” Crockett died by suicide.