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März 1968 in East Village, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Kinderstar der 1940er und 1950er Jahre. Er wirkte zwischen 1943 und 1960 in einer großen Anzahl von Kinofilmen und US-Fernsehserien mit, unter anderem in den Disney -Klassikern Die Schatzinsel ( Treasure Island, 1950) und Peter Pan (1953).
Driscoll's brief, two-minute debut [4] helped him win the role of young Al Sullivan, the youngest of the five Sullivan brothers, in the 20th Century Fox 's World War II drama The Fighting Sullivans (1944) with Thomas Mitchell and Anne Baxter.
Bobby Driscoll was a natural-born actor. Discovered by chance at the age of five-and-a-half in a barber shop in Altadena, CA. and then convincing in anything he ever undertook on the movie screen and on television throughout his career spanning 17 years (1943-1960).
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Bobby Driscoll was a child actor who starred in Song of the South and voiced Peter Pan, but his career and life spiraled downward after being dropped by Disney. He died alone and unclaimed in 1968, buried in a paupers' grave on Hart Island.
Robert Cletus “Bobby” Driscoll was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on March 3rd, 1937, to parents Cletus (1901-1969), an insulation salesman, and Isabelle (Kratz) (1897-1972), a former schoolteacher. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Des Moines, where they stayed until early 1943.
Bobby Driscoll was a child actor who won an Oscar for his role in The Window (1949) and voiced Peter Pan (1953). He struggled with acne, drugs and rejection in his teenage years and died in poverty in 1968.
Bobby Driscoll died unknown in Greenwich Village, New York City on March 30, 1968. Driscoll’s body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave in New York City’s Potter’s Field on Hart Island, where his remains are to this day.
