Bobby Driscoll


Robert Cletus Bobby Driscoll was an American child actor known for a large body of cinema and TV performances from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios most popular liveaction pictures of that period, such as Song of the South , So Dear to My Heart , and Treasure Island . He served as animation model and provided the voice for the title role in Peter Pan . In 1950, he received an Academy Juvenile Award for outstanding performance in feature films.

He was born Robert Cletus Driscoll in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the only child of Cletus , an insulation salesman, and Isabelle , a former schoolteacher. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Des Moines, where they stayed until early 1943. When a doctor advised the father to relocate to balmy California due to pulmonary ailments he was suffering from his workrelated handling of asbestos, the family moved to Los Angeles.

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