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  Bobby Driscoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bobby Driscoll (May 3, 1937 - March 30, 1968) was a successful American child actor.
Born Robert Cletus Driscoll in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Driscoll made his first film appearance in 1943.
Only after Driscoll's mother requested a search for her son a year later was his body identified.
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 Anissa Jones, A Life Less Ordinary.
Bobby would later say of his career in Hollywood "I was carried on a satin cushion and then dropped into a garbage can." Bobby was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Bobby attended The Hollywood Professional Actor's School where he was a straight A student and one of the most popular kids in school.
Bobby Driscoll died of a heart attack at age 31 on March 30, 1968: some children found his body in a trash-filled, deserted tenement off Tompkins Park in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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 Song of the South Biographies - Bobby Driscoll as Johnny
The Driscoll family settled in Pasadena, CA in an effort to relieve Cletus Driscoll (Bobby's father) of sinus conditions.
Through the son of their barber, William Kadel, Bobby was brought to a mass interview at the MGM studios and found himself with a small, uncredited role in Lost Angel (1943).
Bobby was hired as a child actor, and when he was no longer a child, he lost his handle in the acting industry.
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 Hart Island/New York's Prison for the Dead -- Ralph's Useless Bits of Information Message Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1949, when he was 12-years-old, Bobby Driscoll won an Oscar for his roles as "Jeremiah Kincaid" in the sentimental story about a boy and his pet lamb in Disney's "So Dear To My Heart" and as "Tommy Woodry" in the RKO thriller "The Window"(Best Mystery/The Writers Guild).
Bobby had worked for Walt Disney for almost 10 years, since he won the audition for the role of "Johnny" in "Song of the South" in 1945.
Bobby took his art as seriously as he took his acting: one of Bobby's paintings is in The Smithsonian Museum of Modern Art/Wallace Berman Collection.
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 Cinephiles Discussion Forums: Remembering Bobby Driscoll
Bobby won an Oscar on March 23, 1950 at the Pantages Theatre for his performance in "The Window";.
Bobby today, they always start the conversation talking about the fact that he died in a tenement on the lower east side of New York City, just like the setting of his best film “The Window.” That is the movie for which he won an Oscar when he was 12-years-old.
He was so much more than that, and the one role for which he deserved recognition, was as Bobby Driscoll, the son, the husband, and the father, but most of all as the friend.
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 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Walt Disney/America's Dark Prince and theTragedy of Bobby Driscoll
Bobby must have considered himself the luckiest kid alive, he had a father at home, and one at the studio, and they both loved him.
Bobby was the only one, who was going to pay for their mistake.
Bobby Driscoll is a natural, a born actor.
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 Bobby Sriscoll
Birthdate: March 3, 1937 Birthplace: Cedar Rapids, IA Date Of Death: January, 1968 Place Of Death: New York, NY The story of Bobby's life is the most tragic of Hollywood kids.
In 1950, Bobby received an award from The Golden Globes for for the 'outstanding juvenile actor of 1949'.
Bobby Driscoll, finally one of the tragic of screen children, seemed to have everything going for him.
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 Anissaandherbestfriend
The story that everyone has thought Anissa Jones was for 25 years, she wasn't; but Bobby Driscoll was.
He won a Special Academy Award for his performance in the great film noir "The Window." One of his last movie performances was as the voice of Peter Pan in the Walt Disney film of the same name.
Bobby's life was pure Shakespearean Tragedy after he turned 18.
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 boys clothing : Bobby Driscoll
Bobby was born March 3, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Bobby's parents moved to Los Angeles in 1943 and a local barber insisted that Bobby should audition for the movies.
In a tragic ending to his life, an adult Driscoll was found dead in an abandoned New York City tenement not unlike the setting of The Window of an apparent drug overdose.
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 The Window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Set, and filmed on location, in the tenement section of New York's Lower East Side, the film tells the story of a young boy (Driscoll) who has a habit of crying wolf.
Film editor Frederic Knudtson was nominated for an Academy Award, while Driscoll was named Outstanding Juvenile Actor and given a miniature statuette.
A young boy (actor Bobby Driscoll) witnesses a murder when he spies through a window.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Window   (289 words)

  
 The Tutu Boutique to Sponsor Hole at The Friends of Bobby Driscoll, Jr. Golf Tournament
Robert Edward Driscoll, Jr., a friend, son, brother, nephew, cousin, husband, father, terrific role model and fierce competitor, has recently been diagnosed with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSG), a rare kidney disease which requires a kidney transplant as soon as possible.
We ask you to join Bobby, his wife Karen, and his son Shea, in his fight to return to his natural strength and good health.
Bobby is very close and dear to the owners of the Tutu Boutique.
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 Rotten Tomatoes Forums
Three of the paintings on display were painted by Bobby Driscoll, the former Academy Award Winning Child Star(he won an Oscar at age 12 for the film noir The Window/RKO 1949).
Bobby Driscoll/A Forgotten Life March 3, 1937 - March 30, 1968When Bobby Driscoll was 12-years-old, he won an Academy Award for the wonderful film noir "The Window." Bobby's life is also one of Hollywood's darkest chapters.
Bobby also appeared in four movies for Disney, "Song of the South"(1946), "So Dear To My Heart"(1949); he played Jim Hawkins in "Treasure Island"(1950) and was the voice of "Peter Pan"(1953)in the animated feature of the same name.
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 Bobby Driscoll
The Hollywood history books are full of sad stories about popular child actors who couldn't make the transition to success in adult roles, but there is no sadder or more ironic story than that of Bobby Driscoll, who died in 1968 at the age of 31.
Peter Pan never had to grow up, but Bobby Driscoll did and by the time his teen years were over so was his film career.
The body was not even identified as Bobby Driscoll until the following year.
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 Bobby Driscoll - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
American child actor Bobby Driscoll was five years old when, thanks to the tireless efforts of his mother, he made his first film appearance in...
Bobby Driscoll first appeared on screen in Lost Angel in 1944.
Bobby Driscoll as Tommy Woodry in the film noir, The Window (1949) ·; Enlarge.
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 Window, The Review (1949)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Barbara Hale, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Tommy (Bobby Driscoll) is a little boy with a big imagination, and he's always making up stories that get him into trouble.
You may remember Driscoll from Treasure Island - or as the object of Robert Crumb's brother's obsession in the 1990s documentary Crumb.
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 Bobby Driscoll @ Filmbug
Bobby Driscoll (March 3, 1937 - March 30, 1968) was an American film actor who was highly successful as a child actor.
It was more than a year before his body was identified, and he was buried in a pauper's grave.
Tell us what you think of Bobby Driscoll in the Filmbug forum...
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 Biography for Bobby Driscoll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bobby Driscoll's life was a short and sad story.
Driscoll's body was discovered in an abandoned Greenwich Village tenament by two children playing there on March 30, 1968.
His voice was used for Walt Disney's feature Peter Pan (1953) and an actual "acting" performance was filmed, then rotoscoped for the animated character.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0237985/bio   (395 words)

  
 The UnOfficial Bobby Driscoll Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stellar performances by Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, and Bobby Driscoll as "Tommy".
Bobby Driscoll won an Academy Award (often called a mini-award because they did not give Academy Awards to children back then) for Outstanding Juvenile Actor of 1949.
Tommy (Bobby Driscoll) has a wild imagination, full of outlandish stories and made-up characters.
www.barthsburgery.com /fanpages/window49.htm   (206 words)

  
 Bobby Driscoll Forum @ Filmbug
I so love Bobby in all his movies, but especially Peter Pan because his voice is sooooo beautiful!
Curran: Now we know this doesn't have much to do with Bobby Driscoll well anything really but we didn't know where to put it.
To me, Bobby was the finest child actor ever to grace the silver screen.
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 Amazon.com: So Dear to My Heart / Movie (1949) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bobby Driscoll (Jeremiah) is now close to being my favorite child actor of the past.
Jeremiah Kincaid (Bobby Driscoll, who voiced Peter Pan in the animated Disney movie, as well as appearing in "Treasure Island" and "Pecos Bill" and numerous other films as a child star) lives with his Grandma Kincaid (Academy Award and Emmy winner Beulah Bondi).
Bobby Driscoll, my favorite child actor by far, shines as young Jeremiah Kinkaid (he would go on to win a special Oscar for his performance in RKO's THE WINDOW the same year).
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 Movie Forums - Remembering Bobby Driscoll
"The Window" was actually filmed in New York in the spring (March/April) of 1948 when Bobby was 11.
Bobby won an Oscar on March 23, 1950 at the Pantages Theatre for his performance in "The Window".
Bobby Driscoll lies buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in Potter's Field on Hart Island in New York.
www.movieforums.com /community/showthread.php?t=5886   (1547 words)

  
 Ed Driscoll.com: Bobby Short Died
By Ed Driscoll · March 21, 2005 09:44 AM · All You Need Is Ears
His sophisticated cabaret act with interpretations of songs by composers like Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Cole Porter made him a New York fixture and a member of the city's society circle.
``Bobby was fun, campy, and his air of elegance had to do with how he dressed, talked and his selection of music,'' Jack Sameth, who was executive producer at public television's New York- based WNET, said in a telephone interview.
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 eBay - bobby driscoll, VHS, Disneyana items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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And I'd like you to meet some of the cast from Walt Disney's tuneful new hit "Song of the South." Meet Luana Patten and Bobby Driscoll, two youngsters with a bright future.
Driscoll: Nope, I want to be a Marine sargeant when I grow up.
Thanks to both of you for dropping in; we'll be looking for you in Walt Disney's great new picture "Song of the South." Till then, this is Johnny Mercer saying if you want the tops in musical entertainment, be sure and see "Song of the South." Walt Disney made it, and you'll love it.
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 Disney Archives | Peter Pan Character History
Before voicing Peter Pan, actor Bobby Driscoll played lead roles in several Disney films, including Johnny in "Song of the South" (1946), Jeremiah Kincaid in "So Dear to My Heart" (1949), and Jim Hawkins in "Treasure Island" (1950).
He was Disney's first contract child performer and later went on to win a Juvenile Academy Award® for his role in "The Window" (1949).
For "Peter Pan," Bobby filmed live-action reference of his character for the animators (mainly for close-up scenes).
disney.go.com /vault/archives/characters/peterpan/peterpan.html   (283 words)

  
 KMC Forums - Hart Island/New York's Prison for the Dead
Walt Disney fired Bobby at age 16 because he had pimples.
Driscoll could file a lawsuit for discrimination again'st Disney!
I haven't heard of that particular exhibition coming to SMMA and The Getty Museum (I'm quite a regular there).
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 Bobby Driscoll and Robert Newton -- The Robert Newton Chatboard
Bobby Driscoll and Robert Newton -- The Robert Newton Chatboard
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, said that Robert Newton was guilty of Grand Larceny for stealing Treasure Island from his co-stars, but also gave credit to Bobby by saying "Bobby Driscoll is 'Jim Hawkins!'"
Note: This forum is moderated -- new posts are not visible until approved.
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 Bobby Driscoll page in Classic Movie Kids, a collection of rare photographs of the child actors and child actresses of ...
Bobby Driscoll page in Classic Movie Kids, a collection of rare photographs of the child actors and child actresses of yesteryear.
Bobby Driscoll appeared in some 22 movies between 1943 and 1958.
To learn more about Bobby Driscoll, visit the following web sites.
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 Classic Movies
Song of the South Biographies - Bobby Driscoll
Bobby Driscoll page 2 in Classic Movie Kids,...
Bobby Driscoll Page in Bob's Child Film Stars Photo Gallery.
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 Bobby Driscoll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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