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Dec 29, 2019 · Remembering the celebrities, sports stars, politicians and other notable figures who have sadly died in 2019. Prodigy star Keith Flint, actors Luke Perry, Peter Fonda and Doris Day, chef Gary ...
- Hollywood Beginnings
- Disney Success and Peter Pan
- Post-Disney Career
- Prison, Drugs, and Andy Warhol
- The Death of A Former Child Star
Bobby Driscoll was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 3, 1937. He was the only child to parents Cletus, an insulation salesman, and Isabelle, a former schoolteacher. The family moved to California in 1943 on the advice of Cletus’ doctor, who said the elder Driscoll was experiencing health issues due to his work with asbestos. Driscoll was discover...
Driscoll’s breakout role came in the 1946 film, Song of the South, about a boy who visits his grandfather’s plantation. While the film today is viewed negatively for its depictions of slavery and offensive stereotypes, it made Driscoll a household name. Not long after, he signed a contract with Disney, becoming the first male actor to do so. Drisco...
In 1953, Disney unexpectedly terminated Driscoll’s contract, three years earlier than anticipated. While the reasons for this are unknown, it’s speculated it had to do with the young actor’s appearance. Gone were his round cheeks and freckles, and in their place was a lanky teenager with severe facial acne. Driscoll’s parents enrolled him in West L...
By the time he left Hollywood, Driscoll was feeling abandoned, a sentiment from which he never recovered. His relationship with Marilyn was tumultuous, and the pair married and divorced twice. He began hanging out with the wrong crowd, and soon found himself addicted to heroin. While he still found ways to express himself through artistic means, hi...
In March 1968, two children playing in an abandoned tenement in New York City’s Greenwich Villagecame across the body of a deceased male. He was lying in a cot, surrounded by beer bottles and religious pamphlets. There were no signs of foul play and no identification on the body. Attempts to identify him led nowhere. It was determined the man had d...
Jan 22, 2019 · The child star who brought Peter Pan to life also suffered one of Hollywood's most tragic deaths.
Jan 3, 2019 · Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. An actor who appeared in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fletch, and EDtv, Jenkins died April 25 at age 63.
Jan 16, 2018 · Peter Masterson. Everett Collection. The actor, director, and writer died Dec. 18 at the age of 84. As an actor, Masterson appeared in 1968's Counterpoint, 1973's The Exorcist, and 1975's The...
Michael Hirsh (born April 7, 1948) is a Belgian-born Canadian producer, TV executive, entrepreneur, and author. He has been attributed to building from the ground up the Canadian animation industry and, more specifically, award-winning children's programming since the 1980s.
Driscoll as Peter Pan in The Walt Disney Christmas Show. Driscoll's last major success, Peter Pan (1953), was produced largely between May 1949 and mid-1951. [22]
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