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- Actor: Son of Frankenstein. Born in Depression-era Texas, Donnie Dunagan moved with his parents to Memphis as a young child. There, as a three-year-old, he was taught to tap dance by a neighbor and entered in a talent contest at the Orpheum Theatre.
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Donald "Donnie" Roan Dunagan (born August 16, 1934) is an American former child actor and retired United States Marine Corps major. He is best known for portraying the young son of Baron Frankenstein in Son of Frankenstein and for providing the voice of young Bambi in Bambi (1942).
Donnie Dunagan. Actor: Son of Frankenstein. Born in Depression-era Texas, Donnie Dunagan moved with his parents to Memphis as a young child. There, as a three-year-old, he was taught to tap dance by a neighbor and entered in a talent contest at the Orpheum Theatre. Donnie won the $100 prize and caught the attention of a movie talent scout in ...
- August 16, 1934
Nov 12, 2021 · Newspaper clippings of young Donnie Dunagan from the early 1940s. Photo courtesy of NPR. Dunagan’s life story parallels that of his cartoon alter ego. As a child, he grew up in an orphanage in Memphis, Tennessee. The runt of the litter, Dunagan worked as a lathe operator in a boarding house before he entered the military.
Aug 6, 2015 · Dunagan was a fairly successful child actor in the late 1930s and early '40s, having shared the screen with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone in both Son of Frankenstein and Tower of London. But...
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Actor: Son of Frankenstein. Born in Depression-era Texas, Donnie Dunagan moved with his parents to Memphis as a young child. There, as a three-year-old, he was taught to tap dance by a neighbor and entered in a talent contest at the Orpheum Theatre.
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Jul 31, 2015 · As a kid, Dunagan did a brief stint as a child actor, and he was tapped by Walt Disney to be the voice of the lead in the 1942 Bambi, the now-classic animated film about a young deer learning...
Dec 7, 2016 · 1:27. On Dec. 7, 1941, Donnie Dunagan was a successful child actor, a veteran of seven movies. On that day, everything changed. “I was living in Westwood, near the University of California...
