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Bobby Driscoll

Bobby Driscoll

Birthday: 1937-03-03 | Place of Birth: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Bobby Driscoll was an American child and young-adult actor whose substantial career included work on the screen, television, stage, and radio. The 1949 films So Dear to My Heart and The Window earned him an Academy Award as the year's outstanding juvenile actor. His career and life eventually gradually went into decline. In late 1961, addicted to drugs (having begun using when 17), he was sentenced to prison. In 1965, a year after his parole expired, he relocated to New York City. He was found dead in an abandoned East Village tenement in March 1968.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1989
Peter Pan

as    Peter Pan (voice)

1982
Disney's Halloween Treat

as    Peter Pan (voice) (archive footage)

1965
Dirt

as    Nun

1955
The Scarlet Coat

as    Ben Potter

1951
Fathers Are People

as    Goofy Jr. (voice) (uncredited)

1950
Treasure Island

as    Jim Hawkins

1949
The Window

as    Tommy Woodry

1948
Melody Time

as    Bobby Driscoll

1946
From This Day Forward

as    Billy Beesley

1946
Song of the South

as    Johnny

1946
So Goes My Love

as    Percy Maxim

1944
The Big Bonanza

as    Spud Kilton