Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 3, 1937
Place of Birth
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Also Known As
- Robert Cletus Driscoll
- Robert Driscoll
- Bob Driscoll
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 - Movies
Peter Pan
as Peter Pan (voice)
Once Upon a Studio
as Peter Pan (voice) (archive sound)
Song of the South
as Johnny
So Dear to My Heart
as Jeremiah 'Jerry' Kincaid
Treasure Island
as Jim Hawkins
Melody Time
as Bobby Driscoll
The Scarlet Coat
as Ben Potter
O.S.S.
as Gerard
The Window
as Tommy Woodry
The Happy Time
as Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard
