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Claude Jarman Jr. (born September 27, 1934) is an American former child actor, entrepreneur, former executive director of the San Francisco International Film Festival and former director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco .
Oct 4, 1986 · Claude Jarman Jr.. Actor: Rio Grande. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Claude was the son of a railroad accountant. With no intentions of becoming a screen actor at the time, 12-year-old Claude Jarman, Jr. was discovered during an MGM nationwide talent search for their upcoming film, The Yearling (1946), and won the coveted role of Jody Baxter in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic story. The ...
- September 27, 1934
Claude Jarman Jr.. Actor: Rio Grande. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Claude was the son of a railroad accountant. With no intentions of becoming a screen actor at the time, 12-year-old Claude Jarman, Jr. was discovered during an MGM nationwide talent search for their upcoming film, The Yearling (1946), and won the coveted role of Jody Baxter in ...
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"Claude Jarman, Jr. , John Ford / John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend" American Masters Digital Archive (WNET). October 11, 2005 .
May 2, 2021 · INTERVIEW Claude Jarman, Jr. was only 15 years old when he portrayed the son of John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in John Ford’s classic, RIO GRANDE (1950). The young Academy Award winner for THE ...
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Jun 8, 2022 · Claude Jarman, Jr. will always be remembered best for his role in the 1946 MGM Technicolor family drama “The Yearling,” a story about a backwoods boy who befriends a fawn.
Discovered by legendary MGM director Clarence Brown in 1945 in his fifth-grade classroom in Nashville, Tennessee, Claude Jarman, Jr., a total unknown, was whisked away to the movie capital of the world where he would star with Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in the film, The Yearling, based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Claude received a special Juvenile Academy ...