Bobby Driscoll

Biography

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.

Known For

Peter Pan

as Peter Pan (voice)

Once Upon a Studio

as Peter Pan (voice) (archive footage)

Melody Time

as Bobby Driscoll

Song of the South

as Johnny

Treasure Island

as Jim Hawkins

Lilies of the Field

as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

The Window

as Tommy Woodry

So Dear to My Heart

as Jeremiah 'Jerry' Kincaid

Dragnet

The Wonderful World of Disney