Bobby Driscoll
Also Known As: Robert Cletus Driscoll, Robert Driscoll, Bob 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 03, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 30, 1968
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Peter Pan
Overview: Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Neverland, the kids must face Captain Hook and foil his attempts to get rid of Peter for good.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Day is Done
Overview: During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate his men with a bugle picked up by the side of the road.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-12
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Treasure Island
Overview: Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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The Window
Overview: An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Song of the South
Overview: Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-12
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So Dear to My Heart
Overview: The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny. Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram, is the boy's steady ally.
Genres: Drama Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-29
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O.S.S.
Overview: The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
Genres: War Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-26
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Identity Unknown
Overview: A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-02
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The Big Bonanza
Overview: Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-30
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From This Day Forward
Overview: A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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The Party Crashers
Overview: Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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The Happy Time
Overview: A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-30
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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
Overview: A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the home.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-08
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Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Overview: This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-03
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Once Upon a Studio
Overview: Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-24
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If You Knew Susie
Overview: In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-04
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Dirt
Overview: Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-25
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The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
Overview: From all the cartoons Walt Disney and his team create a full length feature film fun and fancy free . Learn the story of how ww2 Changed bongo and the rest of the cartoons . How Edgar burgan got to play himself and his puppets.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Peter Pan Story
Overview: Made in the early days of television, this promotional film takes audiences behind the scenes on the making of Walt Disney's then-upcoming animated feature, Peter Pan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-13
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Father's Lion
Overview: George Geef takes his son camping. His son thinks he sees lions everywhere; George can't see them even when they are right next to him. Lucky for George, his son's got his trusty pop-gun.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-04
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Fathers Are People
Overview: George Geef rushes to the office to inform his fellow employees, "Hey, fellas! I'm a father!". Unfortunately, Geef later learns that, with fatherhood, comes responsibility and lots of it. He must discipline his son when he starts fighting with neighboring kids, filling his pipe with bubble water, and pestering him while he tries to read the newspaper. But most difficult of all is getting him to pick up his toys which is no easy task. Finally, he gets ready to apply hair brush to child's behind but is talked out of it when he sees his son sleeping peacefully. "Kids, they're wonderful," he concludes.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-21
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So Goes My Love
Overview: Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-01
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One Hour in Wonderland
Overview: Airing on Christmas Day, 1950, this holiday special was the first Disney TV production. It features Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd at Walt Disney's Christmas party. The show includes clips of movies and animated shorts and the first appearance of the Fire House Five Plus Two jazz band.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Melody Time
Overview: In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters. You'll be sure to tap your toes and clap your hands in this witty feast for the eyes and ears.
Genres: Animation Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-27
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When I Grow Up
Overview: Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-19
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The Scarlet Coat
Overview: An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
Genres: History Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-29
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The Walt Disney Christmas Show
Overview: The Walt Disney Christmas Show is a Christmas television special, originally broadcast on Christmas Day of 1951. The then-upcoming Disney film Peter Pan is promoted in this special, as is an upcoming reissue of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-25
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Disney's Halloween Treat
Overview: Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-30
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The Fighting Sullivans
Overview: The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-03
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Disney's Greatest Villains
Overview: The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need villains to balance things out. Without villains, there would be no heroes. Villains from Disney films abound here.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-15
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