He is best known for his work at Fleischer Studio, especially on the Betty Boop film Snow-White and as lead animator with Seymour Kneitel on the first year of the "Popeye" the Sailor cartoons starting in 1933.
Crandall was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, and attended the Yale School of Art.
[1] He was one of the first employees of Fleischer Studio, working on the early Koko the Clown shorts in the 1920s.
Crandall's drawing ability was legendary; he animated virtually the entirety of the 1933 Betty Boop cartoon, Snow White himself.
In 1994 it was voted #19 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.