Biography: Bobby Driscoll |
American child actor Bobby Driscoll was five years old when, thanks to the tireless efforts of his mother, he made his first film appearance in MGM's Lost Angel (1943). Three years later, Driscoll was a full-fledged star under contract to Walt Disney... more
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Length: 78min
Cocky Twig Webster (Mark Damon) is the leader of a gang of wealthy teenagers who go around crashing - and trashing - parties, just for kicks. And where are Webster's parents during all this antisocial behavior? Well, Twig's mom (Doris Dowling) happens...
Cast: Bobby Driscoll
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Children's Fantasy Fantasy Family
Length: 77min
A pet project of Walt Disney's since 1939, this animated version of James M. Barrie's Peter Pan reached full fruition in 1953. Eschewing much of Barrie's gentle whimsy (not to mention the more sinister aspects of the leading character), Disney and his...
Cast: Robert Newton Basil Sydney Finlay Currie Patrick Troughton Denis O'Dea
Tags: Adventure Family-Oriented Adventure Sea Adventure Costume Adventure
Length: 96min
The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young...
Cast: Robert Preston
Tags: Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 90min
When I Grow Up is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, Bobby chances across an old diary...
Cast: Arthur Kennedy
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 73min
Widely regarded as a "model" B-movie thriller, The Window stars Bobby Driscoll as a young boy prone to fibs. Thus, no one believes him when he claims to have seen a murder in a neighboring apartment. No one, that is, except the killers (Paul Stewart...
Cast: Walt Disney Ub Iwerks Mary Field
Tags: Childhood Drama Rural Drama Family
Length: 94min
Song of the South is a blend of live action and animation, based on the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Set in the years just after the Civil War, the story begins with young Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) being sent to live at the...
Cast: Harry Carey Burl Ives
Tags: Animal Picture Family Childhood Drama
Length: 82min
Like Disney's earlier Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart peppers its live action with animated sequences. In this film, however, it is the "live" story that lingers longest in the memory. Set in 1903, the film takes place on the small Kincaid...
Cast: Joan Fontaine Garson Kanin Mark Stevens
Length: 95min
In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the early days of their marriage. When they meet in 1938, Bill is working as a machinist, and Susan is a clerk in a bookstore. They...
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 70min
Predating 20th Century-Fox's Somewhere in the Night by at least a year, Identity Unknown is one of the first (if not the first) 1940s melodramas centering around an amenisiac ex-GI. Richard Arlen plays Johnny March, who returns from WW2 with nary a...
Cast: Myrna Loy Don Ameche
Tags: Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 88min
Don Ameche stars in this semi-screwball comedy as a handsome, eccentric 19th century inventor. Myrna Loy is his golddigging fiancee, who foolishly believes Ameche will make her financially secure. Love triumphs over greed, and Loy happily marries the...
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