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Bobby Driscoll is best known for being an American child actor known for starring in cinema, radio, and television performances from the 1940s and 1950s. Most notably in Disney’s animation film, Peter Pan (1953), starring as the voice for the character Peter Pan.
Robert Cletus Driscoll (March 3, 1937 – circa March 30, 1968) was an American actor. He starred in a number of films for Walt Disney Pictures during his childhood from 1940s to the early 1950s, including Song of the South (1946), So Dear to My Heart (1948), and Treasure Island (1950). He received a Academy Juvenile Award in 1950 for ...
Jun 9, 2022 · In 1943, the Driscoll family relocated to Los Angeles, and as it used to happen back in the Golden Age of Hollywood, young Bobby Driscoll would be discovered quite soon. One good day, while the five-year-old was having a haircut, the barber, who was the father of an actor, suggested he should be taken out to one of the big movie studios.
Bobby Driscoll (March 3, 1937 – March 30, 1968) was an American child actor and artist. He had a number of movie and television performances from 1943 to 1960. [1] He acted in Walt Disney Studios ' best known live action movies of that period. Those included Song of the South (1946), So Dear to My Heart (1949) and Treasure Island (1950).
May 11, 2021 · Discover at 5, while getting a haircut, Bobby Driscoll is the son of an insulation salesman and former schoolteacher. Moves from Des Monies, Iowa to Los Angeles. That introduction led to an appointment with his soon-to-be agent. The agent starts working, landing Bobby Driscoll a bit role opposite Margaret O’Brien in the 1943 film Lost Angel ...
Added: May 15, 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 9272. Source citation. Actor. He was a highly acclaimed child actor who won a special Oscar (Juvenile Academy Award) for his starring role in 1949's The Window, and was the first child actor put under exclusive contract to Walt Disney Studios. Besides the suspense movie The Window, he is best known ...
Bobby Driscoll. Actor. Born March 3, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. 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).
