Bobby Driscoll profile
Actor profile

Bobby Driscoll

3rd March 1937 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Acting

Bobby Driscoll was an American child and young-adult actor whose substantial career included work on the screen, television, stage, and radio. The 1949 films So Dear to My Heart and The Window earned him an Academy Award as the year's outstanding juvenile actor. His career and life eventually gradually went into decline. In late 1961, addicted to drugs (having begun using when 17), he was sentenced to prison. In 1965, a year after his parole expired, he relocated to New York City. He was found dead in an abandoned East Village tenement in March 1968.

32 Movies 14 TV Shows 46 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Dirt 25th September 1965 as Nun
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Peter Pan 5th February 1953 as Peter Pan (voice)
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M Squad 20th September 1957 as Stephen 'Steve' Wikowlski