Tom Sawyer
1930
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- Child performer who appeared on stage (notably in "Poppy" with W.C. Fields) and vaudeville. Durkin entered films in 1930 and starred as Huckleberry Finn in the Jackie Coogan "Tom Sawyer" (1930) and "Huckleberry Finn" (1934). He was killed at age 20 when the car Jackie Coogan's father was driving...
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Trent Bernard Durkin was born in New York City in 1915. He began his acting career in theater as a child. Durkin first appeared in films in 1930, playing the role of Huckleberry Finn in Tom Sawyer (1930) and in Huckleberry Finn (1931), both times with Jackie Coogan playing Tom Sawyer.
Junior Durkin. Actor: Recaptured Love. Quiet, benign, blue-eyed, rangy-framed child/teen actor Junior Durkin, who was an absolute natural on film and possessed major "down home" appeal, showed strong promise in just the few 1930s films he appeared in.
- July 2, 1915
- May 4, 1935
Oct 25, 2021 · Two years later, he was the only survivor of a fatal car crash, in which his father and fellow child actor friend Junior Durkin died. In 1941, Coogan enlisted in the U.S. army and became a glider pilot.
Trent "Junior" Durkin (July 2, 1915 – May 4, 1935) was an American stage and film actor. Read more on Wikipedia. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Junior Durkin has received more than 313,280 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Junior Durkin is the 6,834th most popular ...
Biography. Child performer who appeared on stage (notably in "Poppy" with W.C. Fields) and vaudeville. Durkin entered films in 1930 and starred as Huckleberry Finn in the Jackie Coogan "Tom Sawyer" (1930) and "Huckleberry Finn" (1934).
Child performer who appeared on stage (notably in "Poppy" with W.C. Fields) and vaudeville. Durkin entered films in 1930 and starred as Huckleberry Finn in the Jackie Coogan "Tom Sawyer" (1930) and "Huckleberry Finn" (1934). He was killed at age 20 when the car Jackie Coogan's father was driving home from a hunting trip in Mexico was forced from the...
Biography. Child performer who appeared on stage (notably in "Poppy" with W.C. Fields) and vaudeville. Durkin entered films in 1930 and starred as Huckleberry Finn in the Jackie Coogan "Tom Sawyer" (1930) and "Huckleberry Finn" (1934).
