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Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was a British actor who is best remembered for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Mark Lester, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of The Artful Dodger in Oliver! (1968), as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. He is also known for his leading role in the 1969 children's television series H.R. Pufnstuf (1969–71) and for his significant position in the 1976... MORE

Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was a British actor who is best remembered for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Mark Lester, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of The Artful Dodger in Oliver! (1968), as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. He is also known for his leading role in the 1969 children's television series H.R. Pufnstuf (1969–71) and for his significant position in the 1976 HBO mini-series, The Tale of Charlie Niebanck. Wild was born into a working class family in Royton, near Oldham, Lancashire, to a labourer father and a mother who worked as a butcher. Wild moved to Hounslow, west London, with his parents in 1960. He was discovered whilst playing football by theatrical agent June Collins, the mother of one of Jack's team-mates, Phil Collins (who would go on to become a member of Genesis and a well-known solo vocal artist). June Collins enrolled both Jack and his brother Arthur at the Barbara Speake Stage School, an independent school in Acton in West London. The Wild LESS