Fatal addiction to drugs destroyed Bobby Driscolls brilliant career as a child star and left him for dead in an abandoned New York City tenement at age 31. The then-upcoming Disney film Peter Pan is promoted in this special.
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Song of the South as Johnny So Dear to My Heart as Jeremiah Kincaid Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins and Melody Time as himself.
Bobby driscoll walt disney. Author Porter also writes that Disney fell in love with young star Bobby Driscoll of Song of the South 1946 who also voiced Peter Pan. Bobby was the first actor Walt Disney ever put under contract to play the lead character in 1946s Song of the South. Whether we knew it was him or not.
A Christmas television special originally broadcast on Christmas Day of 1951. Bobby become a methamphetamine addict at 17 and died relatively young. Robert Cletus Bobby Driscoll was an American child actor voice actor and artist he appeared in starring roles in several Disney films.
It has been said that he was abused by Disney and that at the age of 17 he became addicted to methamphetamines and years later died from substance abuse. At just five and a half Robert Cletus Driscoll was discovered in a Los Angeles barbershop as he was getting his haircut. March 30 1968 was an American child actor and artist known for his film and TV performances from 1943 to 1960.
American film director animator and businessman Walt Disney with Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten in 1946. Walt Disney reportedly has links to brainwashing. His films include Song of the South Treasure.
Bobby Driscoll was a child star we all knew and loved. Discovered by chance at the age of five-and-a-half in a barber shop in Altadena CA. Bobby Driscoll was Disneys first fallen child star whose rejection and eventual self-sabotage led him to a bizarre and unfortunate early death.
The heartbreaking fate of BOBBY Peter Pan DRISCOLL Disneys FIRST child star whose road to ruin ended with heroin. Driscoll had a prolific career during his younger years. From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Treasure Island is a 1950 live action adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson s 1883 novel.
MIND CONTROL IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Disney would give the young boy wet sloppy kisses RED FLAG EWWWW. There are books and sources that claim that Walt Disney fell in love with child actor Bobby Driscoll the voice and face of Peter Pan.
Unfortunately Driscolls life was anything but a fairytale and instead embodies the consequences and hardships that can sometimes come from the harsh reality of the spotlight. QuestGetty Images He came to the lot one day and they wouldnt let him in at the. Bobby was Disneys live-action Mickey Mouse The budding star made four movies for Disney including Treasure Island Peter Pan and So Dear to My Heart which together with his role in The.
The most famous child star of the late 1940s and early 1950s Driscoll had for years been an icon of Jacksons who rivaled Shirley Temple in importance. Directed by Byron Haskin it stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. I first became interested in the fate of Disney child stars when I unintentionally discovered that Bobby Driscoll the first bonafide live Disney star who was featured in Song of the South and Treasure Island met an untimely end as a transient mentally disturbed drug addict in New York City.
Walt Disney reportedly fell in love with Bobby Driscoll who acted in Treasure Island. Peter Pan is voiced by Bobby Driscoll who was a child actor and also Walt Disneys first live-action movie star. And then convincing in anything he ever undertook on the movie screen and on television throughout his career spanning 17 years 1943-1960.
And heres the real eyebrow-raiser. Robert Cletus Driscoll March 3 1937 c. He was the first child actor to be signed under an exclusive contract to Walt Disney Studios.
He starred in the live-action films. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios best known live-action pictures of that period such as Song of the South 1946 So Dear to My Heart 1949 and Treasure Island 1950. Dying at the age of 31 and buried in an unmarked grave as an unidentified person.
He was in some of Disneys biggest films of the 1940s and 50s film. Walt allegedly fell in love with child actor Bobby Driscoll pictured above the young star of 1946s Song of the South and the voice of Peter Pan in the 1953 animated film. Bobby Driscoll was a natural-born actor.
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