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{{Infobox actor |
| name = Bobby Driscoll
| image = BobbyDriscoll.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = Bobby Driscoll, ca. 1949
| birthname = Robert Cletus Driscoll
| birthdate = {{birth date|1937|3|3|}}
| birthplace = [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]], [[United States of America|United States]]
| deathdate = {{death date and age|1968|3|30|1937|3|3|}}
| deathplace = [[East Village, Manhattan]], [[New York, New York|New York City]]
| occupation = [[Actor]]/[[Artist]]
| yearsactive = 1943–1960
| spouse = Marylin Jean Rush (1956-1957) <br> Marilyn Jean Rush (1957-1960)
| website = <!-- Official websites only -->
| academyawards = '''[[Academy Juvenile Award]]'''<br />1950 ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]''; ''[[The Window]]''
| awards   = '''Milky Way Gold Star Award'''<br />1954 for his TV and Radio work<br />'''[[Hollywood Walk Of Fame]]'''<br>[[Vine Street|1560 Vine Street]]<br />
}}

'''Bobby Driscoll''' (March 3, 1937 – March 30, 1968) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[United States of America|American]] [[child actor]] known for a large body of screen- and TV-work from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the [[Walt Disney Company]]'s most popular live-action pictures, such as ''[[Song of the South]]'' (1946), ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]'' (1948), and ''[[Treasure Island (1950 film)|Treasure Island]]'' (1950), and he was also the close-up model and the voice of the animated ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'' (1953).

In 1950, he was the ninth of only twelve children in [[Hollywood]]'s history to receive an [[Academy Juvenile Award]] for outstanding performance in feature films. This category began in 1934 with [[Shirley Temple]] and ended in 1961 with [[Hayley Mills]].

Shortly after the theatrical release of ''Peter Pan'', Driscoll's final long-term [[contract]] with the [[Disney Studios]] was prematurely terminated, officially because of a severe [[acne]] he additionally developed at about the same time. That caused an increasing indifference of the Hollywood studios, especially, the older he got. Thus, in his early post-Disney years, he was basically known to a nationwide audience for his continuous work in many American [[television]]-series, -[[dramas]] and -[[anthologies]], such as ''[[Dragnet (series)|Dragnet]]'', ''[[Medic (TV series)|Medic]]'', and ''[[Climax!]]'', as well as ''[[Fireside Theatre]]'', ''[[Schlitz Playhouse of Stars]]'', and ''TV Reader's Digest''. However, his screen career ended in 1958 with a final, low-budget teenager-movie, while his TV presence continued until 1960.

In the mid-1950s he became addicted to drugs and frequently fell foul of the law, resulting in continuous withdrawals of acting offers. Despite a hasty marriage late in 1959 and following three children he was unable to kick the habit, what would result in a divorce three years later and an eventual sentencing in 1961. After his release in early 1962 he continued working in common jobs and rejoined the [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] art circle of [[impressionist]] [[Wallace Berman]], whom he already befriended in 1956. After his parole had expired in 1964 he moved to [[New York, New York|New York City]] and spent a few years as a part of the local [[avant-garde]] (also known as the [[Beat Generation]]) under the tutelage of [[pop-art]] [[icon]] [[Andy Warhol]]. However, in the end his funds depleted and disillusioned he died home- and penniless in an abandoned Manhattan tenement in March of 1968 at the age of 31 due to the effects of his long-time [[drug abuse]].

==Life and career==
===Birth and early childhood===
Born '''Robert Cletus Driscoll''' in [[Cedar Rapids]], [[Iowa (U.S. state)|Iowa]], Driscoll was the only child of Cletus Driscoll, an insulation salesman, and Isabelle Krantz Driscoll, a former schoolteacher. Just months after his birth, the family moved to [[Des Moines]],<ref>"[http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/50106010/-1/famousiowans Famous Iowans]". ''Des Moines Register''</ref> where they stayed until early 1943. When a doctor advised Cletus to relocate to balmy [[California]], due to pulmonic ailments he suffered from his work-related handling with [[asbestos]], the family moved to the vicinity of [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]. Driscoll was discovered during a routine haircut. Just a few months later when the barber, attracted by the boy's cute face, urged his parents to try to get him into the movies. His own son, an occasional actor, did then indeed manage to gain him an audition at [[MGM]] for a bit role in the 1943 family drama ''[[Lost Angel]]'', which starred up-and-coming [[Margaret O'Brien]].

While on a tour across the studio lot, the five year old Driscoll spied a mock-up ship and asked where the water was. The director was impressed by the boy's curiosity and intelligence, and selected from forty applicants, he won the part. <ref>{{cite news |first=Peggy |last=Peregrine |title=Studio Round-Up meets Bobby Driscoll |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=261057191209906271&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Picturegoer |date=1949-11-19 |accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Zelda |last=Cini |title=Hot-Rod Stage Shares Affections of Bobby Driscoll |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=643779671168900040&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Hollywood Studio Magazine|volume=2|issue=4|pages=12|date=1977-03 |accessdate=2008-10-21}}</ref>

===The "Wonder Child"===
Driscoll was so convincing in his brief, scarcely two minutes debut,<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=422220411168355591&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=LOST ANGEL'' - Bobby's very first filmrole |work=  www.bobbydriscoll.net |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> that [[20th Century Fox]] hired him out of a crowd of 500 children for the role of young Al Sullivan, the youngest of the five historic Sullivan brothers, in the 1944 [[World War II]] [[drama]] ''[[The Fighting Sullivans]]'' opposite [[Thomas Mitchell]] and [[Anne Baxter]]. Because of the naturalness of his acting and his uncommon talent for memorizing lines at that young age, he was soon considered a new "Wonder Child",<ref>{{cite news |title=Youthful Find Signed By 20th Century Fox |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=565670811181224603&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1944-02-05 |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> and one major studio would recommend him to another, leading to screen portrayals as the boy who could blow his whistle while standing on his head in ''[[Sunday Dinner for a Soldier]]'' (1944), the "child brother" of [[Richard Arlen]] in ''The Big Bonanza'' (1944) and young Percy Maxim in ''[[So Goes My Love]]'' (1946),<ref>{{cite news |first=Edwin |last=Schallert |title=SO GOES MY LOVE - Engaging Trumpery |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=357997891168363760&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=1946-05-24|accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref> with [[Don Ameche]] and [[Myrna Loy]]. In addition, he had a number of smaller roles in movies like ''Identity Unknown'', in 1945, and ''Mrs Susie Slagel's'', ''From This Day Forward'', and ''[[O.S.S.]]'' with [[Alan Ladd]], all three of which were released in 1946.

===Walt Disney's "Golden Boy"===
====''Song of the South''====
[[Image:Bobby 9th birthday onSet SOTS.jpg|left|thumb|Bobby Driscoll celebrating his 9th birthday on the set of ''Song of the South'' on March 4, 1946, accompanied by Walt Disney (at the right), and  director Harve Foster]]
[[Walt Disney]] himself cast and contracted Driscoll as his first ever live actor for the lead character in ''Song of the South'', 1946, which was his first serious attempt to turn away from pure feature-length animation pictures, which, in the past, often proved losses rather than profits. 
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.songofthesouth.net/home.html |title=www.songofthesouth.net - Official Homepage |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>
In addition, Disney considered live action pictures much cheaper and faster to produce than animated ones. Yet, the film still consists of mostly cartoon segments rather than of live action. Nevertheless, almost overnight ''Song of the South'' made Driscoll and his little co-star [[Luana Patten]] the new child stars of their days. Both were even discussed for a special [[Academy Award]] as the best child actors of 1946, but in 1947 it was decided not to present any juvenile awards at all.<ref>{{cite news |first=Luella |last=Parsons |title=That Little Girl in 'Song of the South' a Big Girl Now |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=905147061207559454&userid=48045629 |publisher=Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star |date=1960-02-28|accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> However, in 1948, [[James Baskett]], who died just months after the ceremony, won an [[Honorary Oscar]] for his performance as [[Uncle Remus]] and as the voice of Br'er Fox.

====''So Dear to My Heart''====
Now nicknamed by the American press as Walt Disney's "Sweetheart Team",<ref>{{cite news |title=Walt's "Sweetheart Team" |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=906334621187943086&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher= Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star |date=[[1946-11-10]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}
</ref> the children had another big movie hit together with ''So Dear to My Heart'', 1948, opposite acting balladeer [[Burl Ives]] and veteran character actress [[Beulah Bondi]]. It was planned as Walt Disney's first all live-action movie, and production in fact began immediately after ''Song of the South''. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=90643 |title=SO DEAR TO MY HEART - actual production dates |accessdate=2008-10-17 |work=http://tcm.com }}</ref> However, its release was postponed until late 1948 to allow the addition of animated scenes to meet the demands of Disney's co-producer and long-time distributor [[RKO Radio Pictures]], since in 1947/48 they considered it still unimaginable for a Disney picture to be entirely without animation.

====''The Window''====
[[Image:Oscar march50.JPG|thumb|Bobby Driscoll receiving his Academy Award from [[Donald O'Connor]], March 23, 1950]]
This movie and the RKO production ''[[The Window]]'' (1949),<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.weblore.com/satterwhite/window.html |title=THE WINDOW'' - A Fansite |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> (which became the "sleeper" of the year), based on [[Cornell Woolrich]]'s 1947 crime classic ''The Boy Who Cried Murder'', would earn Driscoll a special Academy Award in March 1950 as the outstanding juvenile actor of the year 1949.<ref>
{{cite news |title=Baby Oscar For Young Star |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=732261201204570590&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=The Daily Courier, Conellesville (Pennsylvania) |date=[[1950-03-31]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title= Winners Of Honors Named |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=732261201204570590&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=The News, Frederick (Maryland)|date=[[1950-03-24]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.popculturemadness.com/Trivia/Oscars/Top-1949-O.html |title=Oscar-Winners and Nominees of 1949 |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>
{{Listen|filename=BobbY_Oscar_1950_short.ogg |title=Donald O'Connor presenting Bobby Driscoll his Oscar| description=22nd Academy Award Ceremony of March 23, 1950 - excerpt}}
Large portions of this low budget [[film noir]] were shot between November and December 1947 in RKO-Pathé's newly constructed studios in (East) Harlem, New York City and in abandoned tenements on 105th and 116th Streets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newyorkcity2005.web.infoseek.co.jp/information/maps/harlem-map.html |title=(East) Harlem, New York |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work= New York City Map }}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinematreasures.org/theater/1298/ |title=RKO-Pathé, New York, Harlem - correct Adress |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>
In mid-December 1947 then the production moved back to Los Angeles, where, in early 1948, interior scenes were filmed. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=1741 |title=THE WINDOW - Production details |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Turner Classic Movies }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Phillip K. |last=Scheuer |title=Cameraman Tetzlaff Scores as Director |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=191982401170183868&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=The Los Angeles Times |date=[[1948-10-24]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Film Faking Takes Some Ingenuity |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=191982401170183868&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Mansfield News Journal (Ohio) |date=[[1950-03-24]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=1741&category=Notes |title=THE WINDOW - Notes |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Turner Classic Movies }}</ref> But the finished picture was shelved because [[Hollywood]] producer [[Howard Hughes]], who bought the RKO studios the previous year, considered it unworthy of release and even the boy not much of an actor. Not until studio authorities were able to convince him that it would make more sense to give it a try, seeing that it was already completed and paid for, did ''The Window'' have a belated premier in May 1949. Driscoll's haunting performance of a little blowhard, whom nobody wants to believe to have witnessed a real murder became the surprise hit of the year, and recouped a multiple of its production costs.

The ''[[New York Times]]'' reviewed it: "[...]''The striking force and terrifying impact of this RKO melodram is chiefly due to Bobby's brilliant acting, for the whole effect would have been lost were there any suspicion of doubt about the credibility of this pivotial character.[...] "The Window" is Bobby Driscoll's picture, make no mistake about it.[...]'' <ref>
{{cite news |title=The Window, "Depicting Terror of Boy in Fear of His Life [...]''|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=191982401170183868&userid=48045629
 |publisher=The New York Times (via www.nytimes.com)|date=[[1949-08-08]] |accessdate=2008-11-16 }}</ref>

==== ''If You Knew Susie'' and ''Melody Time'' ====
Prior to shooting ''The Window'', Driscoll played [[Eddie Cantor]]'s screen son in the 1948 RKO [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy]] ''If You Knew Susie'', in which he teamed up with former [[Our Gang]] member [[Margaret Kerry]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tinkerbelltalks.com/history.htm |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071218152436/http://www.tinkerbelltalks.com/history.htm |archivedate=2007-12-18 |title= Margaret Kerry - Official Homepage|accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> She would work with him again just a few years later in Walt Disney's 1953 animated ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'' - he as the close-up model and the voice of the title character and she as his pixie girlfriend [[Tinker Bell]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ultimatedisney.com/margaretkerry-interview.html |title=A comprehensive Interview with Margaret Kerry (especially on her memories while working at the Disney Studios) |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Ultimated Disney }}</ref> In addition, once again along with his child partner [[Luana Patten]], [[Roy Rogers]] and The Sons Of The Pioneers, he appeared in the teaser of the ''[[Pecos Bill]]'' segment of Disney's cartoon compilation ''[[Melody Time]]'', which was released in 1948.<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=685576991168342925&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=Melody Time |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=www.bobbydriscoll.net }}</ref>

====''Treasure Island''====
[[Image:TreasureIsland OnSet.JPG|left|thumb|Bobby Driscoll and Walt Disney (with wife and daughter) strolling across the set of Treasure Island, ca. July 1949]]
Driscoll's portrayal of [[Jim Hawkins]] in Walt Disney's version of [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Treasure Island (1950 film)|Treasure Island]]'' at the side of British actor [[Robert Newton]] as one-legged [[Long John Silver]], earned him his star at 1560 [[Vine Street]] on the [[Hollywood Walk Of Fame]],

''Treasure Island'' was Walt Disney's eagerly awaited first all live-action picture. Both Disney and RKO had huge amounts of pre-war money frozen in the United Kingdom, which, according to the law of the land, could only be spent there. Therefore, it was a matter of fiscal necessity to film the movie in [[England]] rather than in Hollywood. 
<ref>{{cite news |title=Walt Disney Organizing Trek to England |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=132298671170182483&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1949-04-15]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |first=John L. |last=Scott |title=Disney's New Feature High in Values |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=132298671170182483&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1949-02-23]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Disney Animated Flood of Film Including All-Live "Treasure Island" |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=132298671170182483&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1949-06-15]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Treasure Island With Bobby Driscoll and Robert Newton at "The Mayfair" |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=132298671170182483&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=New York Times |date=[[1950-08-16]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}
</ref> But during production, it was discovered that his young star was not in possession of a valid British work permit, and as a consequence, he, his parents and Walt Disney himself were fined and even ordered to leave the country. When the Driscolls were granted permission to remain for six weeks to prepare an appeal, Disney and director [[Byron Haskin]] immediately spirited the boy away to a sound stage where they shot all of his close-ups,<ref>{{cite news |title=British Court Upholds Bobby Driscoll Fine |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=541213071207500051&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher= unknown |date=1949-10 |accessdate=2008-09-02}}, {{cite book |title=Byron Haskin, interviewed by |last=Adamson |first=Joe |year=1984 |publisher=The Director's Guild of America and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. |location=Metuchen, N.Y. and London |isbn=0-8108-1740-3 |pages=174-175 |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=541213071207500051&userid=48045629&starteintrag= }}</ref> while they used his British [[stand-in]] to film still missing location scenes after he and his parents had returned to California.
<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Byron Haskin]] - interviewed by ... |last=Adamson |first=Joe |year=1984 |publisher=The Director's Guild Of America and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. |location=Metuchen, N.Y. and London |isbn= ISBN 0-8108-1740-3  |pages=pages 174-175 }}</ref>

In the aftermath of this international [[box office]] hit, there were several other film projects involving Driscoll under discussion. But none ever materialized. That's why many of his ensuing performances were confined to [[TV]] and [[radio]]. For example, Byron Haskin recalled in his memoirs that Disney, although interested in Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate story as a full length cartoon, always planned to cast the boy as [[Mark Twain]]’s [[Tom Sawyer]]. <ref>{{cite book |title=[[Byron Haskin]] - interviewed by ... |last=Adamson |first=Joe |year=1984 |publisher=The Director's Guild Of America and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. |location=Metuchen, N.Y. and London |isbn= ISBN 0-8108-1740-3 |pages=page 168}}</ref>At that point in time, he was at the perfect age for the role, but because of a story rights ownership dispute with Hollywood producer David O. Selznick, who had previously produced the property in 1938 with [[Tommy Kelly]] as the title character, Disney ultimately had to cancel the entire project..

On June 7, 1950 the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote: "''Walt Disney would like to star Bobby Driscoll in Tom Sawyer, but David O. Selznick has the property tied up and heaven only knows what he wants for it.''"<ref>{{cite news |title=Tom Sawyer |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=820971281170786189&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1950-06-07]] |accessdate=2008-09-02}} </ref>

According to Haskin's memories:
{{cquote2| "[...] there was an agreement among major producers for story material in public domain. If a company was first in line with a claim, they were given priority. Each year they must maintain a certain amount of expense for story development, securing the rights. [...] Walt had always wanted Tom Sawyer in the worst way. David O. Selznick had prior rights as producer for MGM, and MGM had also the rights to Treasure Island, [...]. Walt put in a kind of shotgun claim for all material not claimed, or delinquent. MGM carefully maintained rights to Tom Sawyer, but one year they slipped and didn’t develop Treasure Island."<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Byron Haskin]] - interviewed by ... |last=Adamson |first=Joe |year=1984 |publisher=The Director's Guild Of America and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. |location=Metuchen, N.Y. and London |isbn= ISBN 0-8108-1740-3  |pages= page 168 }}</ref>}}

That's how Disney became its possessor and ''Treasure Island'' one of his most famous classics, - instead of [[Tom Sawyer]], whose follow-up story he produced in 1960 as ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' with teenage singer [[Eddie Hodges]] in the title role.

Haskin also cited Disney with the words:
''"[...] I want Tom Saywer, not Treasure Island."''<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Byron Haskin]] - interviewed by ... |last=Adamson |first=Joe |year=1984 |publisher=The Director's Guild Of America and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. |location=Metuchen, N.Y. and London |isbn= ISBN 0-8108-1740-3  |pages= page 168 }}</ref>

So they threw it in the "vault", where it was found by [[screenwriter]] and professor of [[English studies|English]] [[Larry W. Watkin]], who also wrote the [[novel]] of the famous [[stage play]] ''[[On Borrowed Time]]'', just a few years later. His sixty pages [[Film treatment|treatment]] eventually gave Disney the idea of the story as a [[cartoon]], and only [[Great Britain]]'s strict fiscal post-war restrictions tipped the scale for shooting it in [[England]], rather than in Hollywood.

Soon after, it was publicly announced that Driscoll would portray a youthful follower of [[Robin Hood]] (some press sources even termed it the British rebel as a child) and be reunited with Robert Newton, who would co-star as Friar Tuck.<ref>{{cite news |title=Walt Disney Will Follow Up 'Treasure Island' |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=820971281170786189&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1950-01-18]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }},
{{cite news |first=Edwin |last=Schallert |title=Disney Again to Wed Cartoons, Live Action |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=820971281170786189&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1950-07-22]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |first=Hedda |last=Hopper |title=Robert Néwton to Portay Friar Tuck |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=820971281170786189&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1951-02-21]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> To be titled ''[[The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men]]'', it was to be a 1952 release. In the end, Disney did indeed produce the film, but with a different cast and story, and without both of them,
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045197/ |title=The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men - Cast |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=www.IMDB.com }}</ref> since the earlier debacle with British law rendered it impossible for him to make a second movie with Driscoll in England. Consequently, ''Robin Hood'' came off differently than originally conceived.

====''When I Grow Up''====
Driscoll's second long-run Disney contract allowed him to be loaned to independent [[Horizon Pictures]] for the double role of Danny/Josh Reed in ''[[When I Grow Up (1951 film)|When I Grow Up]]'' (1951). His casting was the result of the personal suggestion of [[Academy Award|Oscar-winning]] [[screenplay writer]] [[Michael Kanin]]. ''When I Grow Up'' was commissioned by producer [[Sam Spiegel]], and was a little low-budget movie shot in less than a month between mid-November and mid-December 1950, basically on a sound stage at [[Studio City, Los Angeles, California|California Studios]]. Although it received decent reviews, the chief complaint was its length. Following its initial run, it disappeared completely, and the financial losses attended by its production costs of approximately half a million dollars plagued Horizon Studios for the next two years.According to Spiegel's biographers, he was disappointed by the manner in which the entire project was handled.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Sam Spiegel]] - The Incredible Life and Times of Hollywood's Most Iconoclastic Producer [...] |last=Fraser-Cavassoni, |first=Natasha |year=2003 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore  |isbn=ISBN 0-684-83619-X  |pages=pages 119-20 }}</ref> The picture proved to be Kanin's only, but unsuccessful directorial effort.

==== ''Walt Disney's Christmas Shows'' and ''Goofy Jr.'' ====
In addition to his brief guest appearance in Walt Disney's very first TV Christmas show in 1950, also known as ''One Hour in Wonderland'', sponsored by the [[The Coca-Cola Company|Coca-Cola Company]] and hosted by [[Kathryn Beaumont]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=036069271168638759&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=One Hour In Wonderland |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=www.bobbydriscoll.net }}</ref> his later co-star in 1953's animated ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'', and being featured in this very role in a second such recorded promotion show on Christmas of 1951, <ref>{{cite news |first=Bobby |last=Driscoll |title=Personal Letter (to his girl friend, in which he describes the content/nature of Walt Disney's second Christmas show |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=005394331219897352&userid=48045629 |publisher=The Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City |date=[[1951-11-30]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> Driscoll lent his voice to [[Max Goof|Goofy, Jr.]] in the Disney [[cartoon]] shorts, ''Fathers are People'' and ''Father's Lion,'' which were released in 1951 and '52, respectively.

====''The Happy Time''====
In 1952, Driscoll portrayed Robert "Bibi" Bonnard in [[Richard Fleischer]]'s [[comedy]] ''[[The Happy Time]]'' (1952), which was based on a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[play (theatre)|play]] of the same name by [[Samuel A. Taylor]]. Cast with acting veterans [[Charles Boyer]], [[Marsha Hunt (actress)|Marsha Hunt]], [[Louis Jordan]], and [[Kurt Kasznar]], he played the juvenile offspring of a patriarch in [[Quebec]] of the 1920s. On the cusp of adolescence and callow concerning matters of love, Bibi was the character upon whom the plot actually centered. Shot in about one month's time during January–February 1952, the movie was so well done that it became a considerable success for producer [[Stanley Kramer]] and director Richard Fleischer,<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Richard Fleischer]] - Just Tell Me When To Cry - a Memoir |last=Fleischer |first=Richard |year=1993 |publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=ISBN 0-881-84944-8  |pages=pages 80-83 }}</ref> who, just two years later, would score with the [[Walt Disney]] [[Fantasy]] [[classic]] ''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'', starring [[Kirk Douglas]], [[James Mason]], and [[Peter Lorre]].

====''Peter Pan''====
[[Image:PP OnSet MakingOf.JPG|thumb|The Making of ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'' - From left to right: Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, Kathryn Beaumont and Roland Dupree doing a flight-scene, Bobby Driscoll alone, Bobby Driscoll and Walt Disney reading the script, Roland Dupree while filming the "Mermaid-scene" - 1951]]
''The Happy Time'' was released in December 1952, when Driscoll’s last major success, ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'', was already in the can, since it was largely produced between May 1949 and mid-1951,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=86554 |title=PETER PAN - actual production data |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Turner Classic Movies (Official Homepage) }}</ref> although first preparatory works and story developments started in the late 1930s and early 1940s already. Only the United State's entry into [[World War II]] stopped all further works on the project in order to focus on the production of war films for the government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=86554 |title=PETER PAN - actual production data |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Turner Classic Movies (Official Homepage) - section: Notes }}</ref>

When work resumed in May 1949, opposite Disney's "Little British Lady" [[Kathryn Beaumont]], who was cast in the role of [[Wendy Darling]], (and who was also the live action model and voice of his 1951 ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''), he was used as the reference model for the close-ups and Peter Pan's voice, while [[dancer]] and [[choreographer]] [[Roland Dupree Dance Academy|Roland Dupree]] was the actual live-action model for the title character.
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dupreexpo.com/AboutUs.html |title=About us (Biography) |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=www.dupreeexpo.com (Official Homepage of Roland Dupree) }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tinkerbelltalks.com/shop/peter_pan.html |title=Memorablia & Collectibles (signed production photographs with detailed captions |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Tinker Bell Talks - Official Homepage of Margaret Kerry (Tinker Bell) }}</ref>
Scenes were played on an almost empty sound stage with only the most essential props, and  filmed for use by the illustrators. Animation takes a long time, and production of ''Peter Pan'' was in fact so protracted that even [[Hans Conried]], who played and voiced [[Captain Hook]] (and Mr. Darling) was allowed to do some other screen work between his services on the project.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Hans Conried]] - a Biography; with a Filmography and a Listing of Radio, Television, Stage and Voice Work |last=Cargiulo |first=Suzanne |coauthors=Leonard Maltin (Foreword) |year=2002 |publisher=Mcfarland & Company, Inc. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina and London |isbn=ISBN 0-7864-1338-7 |pages=pages 78-79 }}</ref>

===Decline===
===="Dropped"====
As Driscoll grew older, he began to drift further and further away from Walt Disney's generally known personal conception of what epitomized a child star. In his biography on Disney [[Marc Elliot]] described him as the producer's favorite "life action" child star. 

In additional words: ''"Walt often referred to Driscoll with great affection as the living embodiment of his own youth [...]"''<ref> {{cite book |title=[[Walt Disney]] - Hollywood's Dark Prince - A Biography |last=Elliot |first=Marc |year=1993, 1994, 1995 |publisher=Andre Deutsch (publisher) Ltd., First (UK) Paperback edition |location=London |isbn=ISBN 0-233-98961-7 |pages=203 }}</ref>

However, during a project meeting following the completion of ''Peter Pan'', Disney now stated that he fancied the boy as a juvenile screen bully rather than the characters he had portrayed on the screen and which had leveraged him to stardom. Not only biographers, such as Leonard Mosley and [[Marc Elliot]], but studio authorities, employees and directors (such as [[Byron Haskin]] and [[Richard Fleischer]]) as well, agreed in their memories that there was nothing that Walt Disney detested more than having costly, but unemployed workers on his payroll and compared to his salary, Driscoll had quite little to work from 1952 on.
But Disney of all the people had been the one, who, still in February 1949, had issued the then twelve-years-old a two-years extension of his 1948 five-years contract, now running until 1956 and raising the boy's salary to $1750 per week, up from the $1250 weekly figure called for by the contract of the previous year.<ref>{{cite news |title=$300-A-Week Smile - There Is a Film Santa |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=019096541207505457&userid=48045629 |publisher=Syracuse Herald Journal |date=1946-02-22 |accessdate=2008-09-02}}, {{cite news |title=$400-A-Week  |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=019096541207505457&userid=48045629 |publisher=Reno Evening Gazette |date=1947-02-14 |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=New Contract For Boy Film Actor Approved |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=019096541207505457&userid=48045629 |publisher=unknown|date=1949-02|accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref>

In early 1953 then, this internal matter called for a definitive decision to be made based on the aforementioned financial and business considerations, eventually resulting in a dropping of this additional two-years option in late March 1953, which was publicly understood as a premature termination, just weeks after ''Peter Pan'' was released theatrically. In addition a severe case of [[acne]], accompanying the onset of his puberty <ref>{{cite news |first=Barbara |last=Berch Jamison| |title=The Dangerous Years |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=141768441168901354&userid=48045629&starteintrag  |publisher=Motion Picture And Television Magazine |pages=47,84|date=April 1953|accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> and explaining why it was necessary for Driscoll to use heavy [[makeup]] for his performances on dozens of TV shows, can attribute his fall from grace at Disney.

====TV and radio====
[[Image:Bobby on TV.JPG|left|thumb| From top to bottom: Bobby Driscoll in ''Navy Log'', episode: ''Navy Corpsman'', 1955, ''A Letter To Loretta'', episode: ''Big Jim'', 1954 and ''The Zane Grey Theatre'', episode: ''Death Watch'', 1956.]]
Cut loose from Disney and now well into in his adolescent years, Driscoll encountered increasing indifference from the other Hollywood studios. When no new offers appeared that would bring him back to the movie screen, he became more and more dispirited. Beginning in 1953 and for most of the next three years, the bulk of his work was confined to television on such [[anthology]] and [[drama]] series as ''Fireside Theatre'', ''Schlitz Playhouse of Stars'', ''[[Front Row Center]]'', ''[[Navy Log]]'', ''TV Reader's Digest'', ''Climax!'', ''[[Ford Theatre]]'', ''[[Studio One (anthology series)|Studio One]]'', ''Dragnet'', ''Medic'', and ''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater|Zane Grey Theater]]''. In some special star focusing series, he even enjoyed co-starring roles with such acting notables as [[Loretta Young]], [[Gloria Swanson]], and [[Jane Wyman]].

Between 1948 and 1957, he also performed on a number of radio productions, which even included a special broadcast version of ''Treasure Island'' in January 1951 and of ''Peter Pan'' in December 1953. As was common practice in this business, Driscoll and his child partner Luana Patten did promotional radio gigs (starting in late 1946 for ''Song of the South'') and toured the country on various parades and charity events through the years.<ref>{{cite news |title=Flower Classes Open Tomorrow |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=494157911170103473&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1948-01-11]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |first=Hedda |last=Hopper |title=Santa Claus Lane Parad |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=494157911170103473&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1950-11-28]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Block-long Flag to Mark Dimes Parade |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=494157911170103473&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1952-01-18]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Back-To-School Show |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=847000401171143343&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times  |date=[[1950-08-24]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }},</ref>

In 1947, he recorded a special version of "So Dear to My Heart" at [[Capitol Records]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bobby-on-air.chapso.de/ |title=Bobby On Air |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=www.bobbydriscoll.net }}</ref>His reward for all of that would be in 1954 a Milky Way Gold Star Award, chosen in a nationwide poll for his work on [[television]] and [[radio]].<ref> {{cite news |title=Radio-TV Youth Win Top Awards |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=513514661189715226&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1954-03-18]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>

===="Washed up"==== 
After leaving the Disney studios, Driscoll's parents decided to withdraw their son from the talent supporting [[Hollywood Professional School]],<ref>
{{cite news |first=Aline |last=Mosby |title=Pupils In Hollywood School Drew More pay Than Their Teachers |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=262778121182844442&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=The Coshocton Tribune (Ohio) |date= [[1956-02-19]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |first=Aline |last=Mosby |title=Strangest Grammar School In Nation Found In Hollywood |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=262778121182844442&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=The Daily Courier, Cornellsville (Pennsylvania) |date=[[1956-02-18]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref><ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.squareone.org/HPS/ |title=Hollywood Professional School |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref><ref>''Hollywood Professional School at Wikipedia:''[[Hollywood Professional School]]''</ref><ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.seeing-stars.com/schools/hps.shtml |title=Hollywood Professional School |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Seeing Stars }}</ref> which he had previously attended, and sent him to the public Westwood [[University High School (Los Angeles, California)|University High School]] instead. A substantial mistake, as his mother later would admit to a reporter, because there, he not only dropped from a straight A-student to an average pupil, but his former stardom additionally became more burden than advantage. Being ridiculed was commonplace, and he, as a former and now washed-up Disney star, was constantly made the target of the cruel remarks and barbs of jealous fellow students. Wishing only to gain acceptance in his new surroundings, he likely sought those outside the school's inner circle, which may have led him to his first experimentation with [[Recreational drug use|drugs]] in a desperate attempt at securing a place among his peers.<ref>{{cite news |first=Barbara |last=Berch Jamison|title=The Dangerous Years |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=141768441168901354&userid=48045629&starteintrag  |publisher=Motion Picture And Television Magazine |pages=47, 84 |date=April 1953|accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Barbara |last=Epstein |title=The Lonely Death Of a Star |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=054156691170964035&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Movie Digest|pages=104|date=July 1972 |accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref>

One of his most famous quotations from that time is:  
{{cquote2|''The other kids didn't accept me. They treated me as one apart. I tried desperately to be one of the gang. When they rejected me, I fought back, became belligerent and cocky &mdash; and was afraid all the time.''<ref> 
{{cite news |title=Little Discipline|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=551999211181123083&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Violette Messenger, Valparaiso (Indiana)|date=1958-05-27|accessdate=2008-09-02}} </ref><ref>
{{cite news |first=Barbara |last=Epstein |title=The Lonely Death of a Star |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=054156691170964035&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Movie Digest |pages=100-107 |date=July 1972 |accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref>}}

When the pressure and malice from his school-mates grew too hard to stay at this public school any longer, at his own request Driscoll returned just one year later to Hollywood Professional School, where in May 1955 he finally graduated.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=478475961213645555&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=Bobby's graduation at Hollywood Professional School |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=www.bobbydriscoll.net }}</ref> However, the damage was done. In no time he was hooked on narcotics, and growing ever more dependent on them, he turned mainly to [[heroin]]. His still healthy bank account provided an almost automatic pipeline of cash to the pushers. 

At a future interview, years later, he would admit:<ref>
{{cite news |title=The Long Road Back – Bobby Driscoll, a Film Star at 6, an Addict at 17, Sent to Chino|url= http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=602828531171404138&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=The Los Angeles Times |date=1961-10-19|accessdate=2008-11-19}}</ref>
{{cquote2|''I was 17 when I first experimented with the stuff. In no time I was using whatever was available, ... mostly heroin, because I had the money to pay for it.''}} 

In 1956, Driscoll was arrested for the first time for possession of [[marijuana]]. The charge was later dismissed.<ref>
{{cite news |title=Bobby Driscoll, Friend Denies Narcotic Charge - This Is No Act |url= http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=452965951184268596&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date= [[1956-07-12]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |first=Hedda |last=Hopper |title=Serious Matter |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=452965951184268596&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher= Los Angeles Times |date=[[1956-07-24]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Actor Bobby Driscoll, 19, Seized On Dope Charge |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=452965951184268596&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1956-07-11]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Narcotic Charge Dismissed |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=452965951184268596&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Reno Evening Gazette |date=[[1956-07-17]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>
On July 24, 1956, [[Hedda Hopper]] wrote in the ''Los Angeles Times'': ''"This could cost this fine lad and good actor his career."''<ref>{{cite news |first=Hedda |last=Hopper |title=Serious Matter |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=452965951184268596&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1956-07-24]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>

This incident had a deep impact on Driscoll's career. Television producers now disapproved of him to such an extent that, in 1957, he could gain just one television part: the loyal brother of a criminal immigrant in ''[[M Squad]]'', a long-running crime series which starred [[Lee Marvin]]. 

In December 1956, Driscoll and his girlfriend, Marilyn Jean Rush, (occasionally misspelled as "Brush") eloped to [[Mexico]] to be married. This furtiveness was necessary because they knew that both sets of parents would strenuously object to the marriage. The couple was later re-wed in a [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] ceremony that took place in March 1957.<ref> {{cite news |title=Actor Driscoll reveals To Plan To Rewed Girl, 19 |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=992707091181124381&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1957-03-09]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Actor Driscoll Needs Job As Clerk To Finance Marriage |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=992707091181124381&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Newport Daily News (Rhode Island) |date=[[1957-03-09]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}
</ref> Three children resulted from the union, which culminated, first, in a separation, and finally in a 1960 divorce.<ref> {{cite news |title=The Long Road back - Bobby Driscoll, a Film Star At 6, An Addict At 17, Sent To Chino |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=602828531171404138&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Time |date=[[1961-10-19]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>

===Final roles and end of career===
====''The Scarlet Coat'' and ''The Party Crashers''====
Now electing to use his birth name of "Robert" <ref> {{cite news |first=Bob |last=Thomas |title=Hollywood ... |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=483371831169290831&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Violette Messenger, Valparaiso (Indiana) |date=[[1958-05-27]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref> in another attempt to distance himself from the youngish-sounding "Bobby," (since 1951, among his friends and family already, he preferred to be called "Bob" rather than "Bobby" <ref>{{cite news |first=Bobby |last=Driscoll |title=A personal Letter to his girl friend of then, which he closes with "Bob".) |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=005394331219897352&userid=48045629 |publisher=The Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City |date=[[1951-11-30]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>, and in ''Schlitz Playhouse of Stars'' - Early Space Conquerors, 1952, he is even credited with "Bob Driscoll" <ref>{{imdb title|id=0695743|title=Schlitz Playhouse of Stars}}</ref>), he managed to land two final screen roles, even in spite of the negative headlines, which would follow from 1956 on. In the first, he was featured with [[Cornell Wilde]] in the 1955 release entitled ''[[The Scarlet Coat]]'', and in the second, he performed opposite [[Mark Damon]] and [[Connie Stevens]] in ''The Party Crashers'' (1958).<ref> {{cite news |first=Bob |last=Thomas |title=Bobby Driscoll Hopes To Rebuild Film Life |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=672408471207491113&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Violette Messenger, Valparaiso (Indiana) |date=[[1958-05-27]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |title=Actors Seem More Intent, State Stars |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=672408471207491113&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Van Nuys News (California) |date=[[1958-08-21]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }} </ref> Thereafter, his life became more and more a roller coaster ride, one which included several additional encounters with the law. One of them was, for instance, being charged 
for “Disturbing the peace” and “Assault with a deadly weapon”, when he hit one of two hecklers, who made insulting remarks with a pistol, while he was washing a girlfriend’s car. After paying of a bail the charge was dropped. <ref>{{cite news |title=Bobby Driscoll pleads guilty |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=356904751226986276&userid=48045629 |publisher=Indiana Evening Gazette |date=[[1960-10-19]] |accessdate=2008-11-18 }}
{{cite news |title=Ex-Child Acztor Cleared in Court|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=356904751226986276&userid=48045629 |publisher=Indiana Evening Gazette |date=[[1960-10-24]] |accessdate=2008-11-18 }} 
{{cite news |title=Bobby Driscoll Freed On Bail After Fracas|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=356904751226986276&userid=48045629 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1960-06-19]] |accessdate=2008-11-18 }} </ref>
Yet, that all ultimately led to his eventual sentencing late in 1961 as a [[drug addict]] and his imprisonment at the [[Drug rehabilitation|Narcotic Rehabilitation Center]] of the [[California Institution for Men]] in [[Chino, California]]. His very last known appearances on TV were small roles in two, single-season series: ''[[The Best of the Post]]'', a [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] [[anthology series]] adapted from stories published in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'' magazine, and ''[[The Brothers Brennagan]]'', an unsuccessful crime series. Both were originally aired on November 5, 1960.

When Driscoll left Chino in early 1962, clean and eager to make a comeback, he was now ignored by the industry that once had raised and nurtured him, solely because of his record as a [[convict]] and former drug addict. Embittered by his treatment by Hollywood, he said:''"I have found that memories are not very useful. I was carried on a silver platter ... and then dumped into the garbage."'' <ref>{{cite news |title=Bobby Driscoll Won't Be Around For Reissue Of "Song Of The South" (last column) |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=402973551168901962&userid=48045629&starteintrag=
 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1972-02-13]] |accessdate=2008-11-16}} </ref>

===New York City and death===
[[Image:Bobby1967.jpg|thumb|Bobby Driscoll in New York City, 1967]]
In 1965, scarcely one year after his [[parole]] expired, he relocated to New York, hoping to revive his career on the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[stage]], but only to find that his reputation had preceded him and no one wanted to hire him there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=894334561184330655&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=His mother on his downslide |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=The Lonely Death Of A Star (on www.bobbydriscoll.net) |publisher=Movie Digest |date=July 1972  }}</ref> 

He became part of [[Andy Warhol]]'s [[Greenwich Village]] [[art]] [[community]], also known as [[The Factory]],<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.billyname.com/roothtmls/print-fs.shtml |title=Bobby Driscoll sitting on a couch (on portfolio, page 38, third row - it's the last known photograph of him, ca. late) 1967 |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=OvoWorks, New York City - Official Homepage}} </ref> where he began focusing on his artistic talents. He had previously been encouraged to do so by famed artist and poet [[Wallace Berman]], whom he had befriended after joining Berman's art circle (also known as Semina Culture) in Los Angeles in 1956. Some of his works were considered outstanding,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=737169091170000531&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=SEMINA CULTURE - Wallace Berman & His Circle |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=Umbrella Exhibition Catalogue, vol. 28, no.2-3 |date=October 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/arts/design/26semi.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin |title=A Return Trip to a Faraway Place Called Underground |accessdate=2008-09-02 |publisher=The New York Times online  |date=[[1972-01-26]] }}</ref> 
and a few of his surviving collages and cardboard mailers were temporarily exhibited in Los Angeles at the [[Santa Monica Museum of Art]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smmoa.org/site/exhibits/onViewNow.html |title=Santa Monica Museum Of Art - Official Homepage |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=SEMINA CULTURE - Wallace Berman & His Circle |last=Duncan |first=Michael |coauthors=McKenna, Christine |year=2005 |publisher=Santa Monica Museum Of Art |location=Los Angeles |pages=132-135, 233 }}</ref>
And it was also in 1965, early on in his tenure at The Factory, that Driscoll gave his last known performance, that being in experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer's Underground movie ''[[Dirt]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/780715/ |title=DIRT- Review and a downloadable clip of the so-called "Bath-sequence" |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>

The only information known about the last months of Driscoll's life is that he left Andy Warhol's entourage and The Factory in late 1967 or very early 1968 and, completely penniless and disillusioned, disappeared into [[Manhattan]]'s underground. On March 30, 1968, about three weeks after his 31st birthday, two boys playing in a deserted [[East Village]] tenement on East 10th St found his dead body. The medical examination determined that he had died from [[Myocardial infarction|heart failure]] caused by an advanced [[Atherosclerosis|hardening of the arteries]] <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=757800231184340704&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=The cause of his death |accessdate=2008-09-02 |work=www.bobbydriscoll.net }}</ref> due to longtime [[drug abuse]]. There was no ID on the body, and photos taken of it and shown around the neighborhood yielded no positive identification.

When Driscoll's body went unclaimed and was believed to be that of a homeless person, he was buried in an unmarked [[Poverty|pauper's]] grave in New York City's [[Potter's Field]] on [[Hart Island (New York)|Hart Island]]. 
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/hart.htm |title=Hart Island (Potter's Field) - Official Homepage (controlled by the "Department Of Correction" and wth that inaccessable to visitors)|accessdate=2008-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hartisland.org/ |title=The Hart Island Project |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>

Late in 1969, about nineteen months after his demise, Driscoll's mother sought the help of officials at the Disney studios in a desperate attempt to contact him for a hoped-for reunion with his father, who was near death. This eventually resulted in a fingerprint match at [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]], which located him on [[Hart Island (New York)|Hart Island]]. Although his name appears on his father's gravestone at Eternal Hills Memorial Park in Oceanside, it is merely a [[cenotaph]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Driscoll&GSfn=Bobby&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=9272&  |title=Bobby Driscoll's page |accessdate=2008-09-02|work=Find A Grave}}</ref> since his remains still rest on Hart Island.

Driscoll's death was not publicly acknowledged until the re-release of his first Disney film, ''Song of the South'', in 1971/72, when reporters decided to research the whereabouts of the film's major cast members. It was through an interview with his mother that they learned the facts about his short life and early death.<ref>
{{cite news |first=Marylin |last=Beck |title=With Re-Release Of Disney Film - Child Star's Tragic Death Described |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=781986101171900816&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=The Lima News (California) |date=[[1971-07-14]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |first=Donna |last=Larson |title=Bobby Driscoll Won't Be Around For Reissue Of Song of the South |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=402973551168901962&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=[[1972-02-13]] |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}, {{cite news |first=Barbara |last=Epstein |title=The Lonely Death Of a Star |url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=054156691170964035&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |publisher=Movie Digest |pages=98-107|date=July 1972 |accessdate=2008-09-02 }}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="5" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Film
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Film
! Role
! Production Company
! Other notes
|-
| 1943
| ''Lost Angel''
| Bobby, Boy on train with sucker
| [[MGM]]
| Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=3|1944
| ''[[The Fighting Sullivans]]''
| Al Sullivan as a child
| [[Twentieth Century Fox]]
| Uncredited
|-
| ''Sunday Dinner for a Soldier''
| Jeep Osborne
| Twentieth Century Fox
|
|-
| ''The Big Bonanza''
| Spud Kilton
| [[Republic Pictures]]
|
|-
| 1945
| ''Identity Unknown''
| Toddy Loring
| Republic Pictures
|
|-
|rowspan=5|1946
| ''Miss Susie Slagle's''
| Boy with a wounded dog
| [[Paramount Pictures]]
| Uncredited, - produced 1944, released 1946
|-
| ''From This Day Forward''
| Timmy Beesley
| [[RKO Radio Pictures]]
|
|-
| ''[[So Goes My Love]]''
| Percy Maxim
| [[Universal Pictures]]
| UK-title: ''A Genius in the Family''
|-
| ''[[O.S.S.]]''
| Gerard
| Paramount Pictures
|
|-
| ''Song of the South''
| Johnny
 | [[Walt Disney Productions]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1948
| ''[[Pecos Bill]]/[[Melody Time]]''
| Himself
| Walt Disney Productions
| With ''Luana Patten'', ''Roy Rogers'' and ''The Sons Of The Pioneers'' in the brief teaser to the "Pecos Bill" cartoon segment
|-
| ''If You Knew Susie''
| Junior Parker
| RKO Radio Pictures
| With Margaret Kerry ([[Tinker Bell]] in ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]'', 1953)
|-
| ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]''
| Jeremiah Kincaid
| Walt Disney Productions
| Produced in mid-1946 (following ''Song of the South''), postponed until 1948
|-
| 1949
| ''[[The Window]]''
| Tommy Woodry
| RKO Radio Pictures
| Produced late 1947 to early 1948,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=191982401170183868&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=Cameraman Tetzlaff Scores as Director |work=Los Angeles Times |publisher=''A Tribute To Bobby Driscoll'' |date=1928-10-24 |accessdate=2008-11-15}}</ref> but shelved until 1949, [[Academy Juvenile Award]]
|-
| 1950
| ''[[Treasure Island (1950 film)|Treasure Island]]''
| Jim Hawkins
| Walt Disney Productions
| Star at the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] - 1560 Vine Street
|-
|rowspan=2|1951
| ''When I Grow Up''
| Josh/Danny Reed
| [[Horizon Pictures]]
|
|-
| ''Fathers are People''
| Goofy, Jr.
| Walt Disney Productions
| Voice
|-
|rowspan=2|1952
| ''Father's Lion''
| Goofy, Jr.
| Walt Disney Productions
| Voice
|-
| ''[[The Happy Time]]''
| Robert "Bibi" Bonnard
| Stanley Kramer Productions
|
|-
| 1953
| ''[[Peter Pan (1953 film)|Peter Pan]]''
| Peter Pan
| Walt Disney Productions
| Voice and close-up model
|-
| 1955
| ''[[The Scarlet Coat]]''
| Ben Potter
| [[MGM]]
|
|-
| 1958
| ''The Party Crashers''
| Josh Bickford
| Paramount Pictures
|
|-
| 1965
| ''Dirt''
| Unknown
| Produced by [[Andy Warhol]]
|
|-
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="5" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Television
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Series Title/Episode
! Role
! Original Production Company
! Original Air dates
|-
| 1951
| ''[[The Lux Video Theatre]]'' - Episode: "Tin Badge"
| Billy Crandall
| J. Walter Thompson Agency - originally distributed by [[CBS]] Television (1950-1954) and [[NBC]] (1954-1957)
| Originally aired on December 3
|-
| rowspan= 2|1952
| ''[[Schlitz Playhouse of Stars]]'' - Episode: "Early Space Conquerors" 
| Captain of a teen space-rocket crew
| Meridian Productions (1951-1956] and
Revue Studios (1956-1959) - originally distributed by CBS
 | Originally aired on July 18
|-
| ''The Unexpected'' - Episode: "Some Day They Will Give Us Guns"
| Julian
| ZIV Television Program
| Originally aired on December 10
|-
|rowspan= 1|1953
| ''[[Dragnet (series)|Dragnet]]'' - Episode: "The Big Sophomore"
| Harry Thomas Dunbar
| NBC
| Originally aired on October 1
|-
|rowspan= 4|1954
| ''[[Medic (TV series)|Medic]]'' - Episode: "Laughter is a Boy" 
| Pete Koslow
| Medic Productions
| Originally aired on September 20
|-
| ''[[Big Town#Television|Big Town]]'' - Episode: "Juvenile Crime Pack"
| Unknown
| CBS Televisions (1950-54), NBC (1954-1956)
| Originally aired on November 17
|-
| ''[[Letter to Loretta]]'' - Episode: "Big Jim"
| Jimmy Skinner
| Lewislor Productions (1953-1958) and
Toreto Enterprises (1958-1961)
| Originally aired on December 5
|-
| ''[[Fireside Theatre]]'' - Episode: "His Fathers Keeper"
| Unknown
| General Television Enterprises, [[Hal Roach]] Studios and NBC
| Originally aired on December 7
|-
| rowspan= 7|1955
| ''Fireside Theatre'' - Episode: "The Double Life of Barney Peters"
| Unknown
| [[Bing Crosby]] Productions
| Originally aired on January 18
|-
| ''The Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson'' - Episode: "The Best Years"
| Unknown
| CBS Television
| Originally aired on February 8
|-
| ''[[Front Row Center]]'' - Episode: "Ah, Wilderness"
| Richard Miller
| CBS Televisions
| Originally aired on June 15
|-
| ''Schlitz Playhouse of Stars'' - Episode: "Too Late to Run"
| Unknown
| Meridian Productions (1951-1956] and
Revue Studios (1956-1959) - originally distributed by CBS
| Originally aired on August 5
|-
| ''[[Screen Directors Playhouse]]'' - Episode: "Day is Done"
| Private Zane
| Hal Roach Studios - originally distributed by CBS
| Originally aired on October 12
|-
| ''[[Navy Log]]'' - Episode: "Navy Corpsman"
| Billy Sayers (Specs)
| CBS Television (1955-1956)and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1956-1958)
| Originally aired on November 29
|-
| ''TV Reader's Digest'' - Episode: "A Matter of Life or Death"
| Young Radford Sawyer
| Chester Erskine Productions - originally distributed by ABC
| Originally aired on December 10
|-
| rowspan= 8|1956
| ''Crusader'' - Episode: "Fear"
| Josef
| Revue Studios and
Richard Lewis Productions - originally distribted by CBS Television and Studios USA Television
| Originally aired on January 13
|-
| ''[[Climax!]]'' - Episode: "The Secret of River Lane"
| Gary
| CBS Television
| Originally aired on January 26
|-
| ''The Ford Television Center'' - Episode: "Try Me for Size"
| Stump
| Ford Motor Company (live episodes) and [[Screen Gems#Television subsidiary: 1948–1974|Screen Gems Television]] (filmed episodes) - originally distributed by NBC (1952-1956) (original airing) and ABC (1956-1957) (final season)
| Originally aired on January 26
|-
| ''[[Studio One (anthology series)|Studio One]]'' - Episode: "I Do"
| Peter
| CBS Television
| Originally aired on April 30
|-
| ''TV Reader's Digest'' - Episode: "No Horse, No Wife, No Moustache"
| Cadet John Aldridge Jr.
| Chester Erskine Productions - originally distributed by ABC
| Originally aired on July 9
|-
| ''TV Reader's Digest'' - Episode: "The Smuggler"
| Truls Halverson
| Chester Erskine Productions - originally distributed by ABC
| Originally aired on January 26
|-
| ''Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre'' - Episode: "Dirty Face"
| Johnny Bridges
| Lewman Productions - originally distributed by NBC
| Originally aired on September 4
|-
| ''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater|Zane Grey Theatre]]'' - Episode: "Death Watch"
| Trumpeter Jones
| Four Star Productions, Pamric Productions and Zane Grey Enterprises - originally distributed by CBS Television
| Originally aired on November 9
|-
| 1957
| ''[[M Squad]]'' - Episode: "Pete Loves Mary"
| Stephen/Steve Wikowski
| Latimer Productions and Revue Studios - originally distributed by NBC
| Originally aired on October 11
|-
| rowspan= 3|1958
| ''Men of Anapolis'' - Episode: "The Irwin Allen Story"
| Unknown
| ZIV Television Programs
| Originally airing date unknown
|-
| ''[[Frontier Justice (TV series)|Frontier Justice]]'' - Episode: "Death Watch"
| Trumpeter Jones
| Four Star Productions - originally distributed by CBS Television
| Originally aired on July 14
|-
| ''[[The Millionaire]]'' - Episode: "The Norman Conover Story"
| Lew Conover
| CBS Television and Don Fedderson Productions
| Originally aired on September 10
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'' - Episode: "The Incident of Fear in the Streets"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/506711|title=''Rawhide'': "Incident of Fear in the Streets" credits|publisher=ftvdb.bfi.org.uk}}</ref>
| Wilt Mason
| CBS Television
| Originally aired on May 8
|-
| rowspan= 3|1960
| ''The Chevy Mystery Show'' - Episode: "The Summer Hero"
| Fred Forbes
| Revue Studios - originally distributed by NBC
| Originally aired on June 12
|-
| ''The Best of the Post'' - Episode: "A Cop Without a Badge"
| unknown
| MGM Television and Wrather Productions (as Jack Wrather Productions) - originally distributed by ITC Entertainment Group
| Originally aired on November 5
|-
| ''The Brothers Branaghan'' - Episode: "The Twisted Root" 
| Johnny
| CBS Films
| Originally aired on November 5
|-
|}

===Special appearances===
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Special apperances
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Appearance
! Role
! Other notes
|-
|-
|rowspan= 4|1950
| [[22nd Academy Awards|22nd Academy Award Ceremony]]
| Himself
| Hosted by Paul Douglas - receiving his Oscar presented by Donald O'Connor - on March 23rd
|-
| ''Back to School Show''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=847000401171143343&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=Child Actor to be Guest at Back-to-School Show |work=Los Angeles Times |publisher=A Tribute to Bobby Driscoll |date=1950-08-24 |accessdate=2008-11-15}}</ref>
| Himself / guest
| Aired in August 1950
|-
| Santa Claus Lane Parade<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=494157911170103473&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=Santa Claus Lane Parade |publisher=A Tribute To Bobby Driscoll |first=Hedda |last=Hopper |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1950-11-28 |accessdate=2008-11-15}}</ref>
| Himself
| With Kathryn Beaumont and Teddy Gwenn - November 1950
|-
| ''One Hour in Wonderland''
| Himself
| Hosted by Walt Disney and Kathryn Beaumont
|-
| rowspan= 2|1951
| ''The Ken Murray Show''
| Himself / Jim Hawkins
| Aired on February 24, - hosted by Ken Murray
|-
| ''The Walt Disney Christmas Show''
| Peter Pan
| Hosted by Walt Disney
|-
| rowspan= 1|1952
| Mark Dimes Parade<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=494157911170103473&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=Block Long Flag to Mark Dimes Parade |work=Los Angeles Times |publisher=A Tribute to Bobby Driscoll |date=1952-01-18 |accessdate=2008-11-15}}</ref>
| Himself
| With [[Roy Rogers]] and [[Natalie Wood]] - January 1952
|-
|rowspan= 1|1953
| [[25th Academy Awards|The 25th Annual Academy Award Show]] <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=556462941183204602&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=The 25th Annual Academy Award Show |publisher=A Tribute To Bobby Driscoll |date=1953-03-29 |accessdate=2008-11-15}}</ref>
| Himself/guest
| The first TV broadcast of the Annual Motion Picture Awards Ceremony on March 19 - hosted by [[Bob Hope]]
|-
|rowspan= 1|1955
| The Disneyland Opening Day<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=961372281183197250&userid=48045629&starteintrag= |title=Disneyland Opening Day - July 17, 1955 |publisher=A Tribute To Bobby Driscoll |date=1955-07-17 |accessdate=2008-11-15}}</ref> 
| Himself
| Briefly interviewed by [[Robert Cummings|Bob Cummings]] - on July 17
|-
|}

===Stage===
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|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Stage productions
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Performance
! Role
! Dates
|-
|rowspan= 2|1954
| ''The Boy With a Cart''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=905529271170089740&userid=48045629&starteintrag=|title=''The Boy With a Cart'' 1953-54|publisher=oyla20.de}}</ref>
| The boy
| February 1954
|-
| ''[[Ah, Wilderness!]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=953062141170095003&userid=48045629&starteintrag=|title=Pasadena Playhouse - ''Ah, Wilderness!''|publisher=oyla20.de}}</ref>
| Richard Miller
| August 1954 ([[Pasadena Playhouse]])
|-
| 1957
| ''Girls of Summer''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oyla20.de/cgi-bin/designs/clock/index.cgi?page=text&id=910968871170455594&userid=48045629&starteintrag=|title=Players Ring Theatre - ''Girl of Summer'', 1957|publisher=oyla20.de}}</ref>
| unknown
| May 1957 (Players Ring Theatre)
|-
|}

===Radio shows/on air===
(This is not necessarily a complete list, it only displays all of those radio-shows, which could be located and verified until now.)<ref>[http://bobby-on-air.chapso.de/ Radio Shows/On Air]</ref>

{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Radio shows
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Show
! Role
! Airing dates/Other notes
|-
|rowspan= 2|1946
| ''Song of the South'' - Promo-Interview <ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.songofthesouth.net/movie/audio/index.html |title=Audio-Archive |accessdate=2008-11-16 }}</ref>
| Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten, hosted by Johnny Mercer
| Aired in late 1946
|-
| ''Song of the South'' - Promo-Interview <ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.songofthesouth.net/movie/audio/index.html |title=Audio-Archive |accessdate=2008-11-16 }}</ref>
| Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Walt Disney and James Baskett, hosted by Johnny Mercer
| Aired in late 1946
|-
|rowspan= 4|1948
| ''[[Family Theater]]'' - "As the Twig is Bent"
|
| Aired in February 1948
|-
| ''Family Theatre'' - "The Future is Yours"
|
| Aired on February 19
|-
| ''Family Theatre'' - "Jamie and the Promise"
|
| Aired on August 19
|-
| ''Family Theater'' - "A Daddy for Christmas"
|
| Aired on December 15
|-
|rowspan=3|1950
| ''Family Theater'' - "Mahoney's Lucky Day"
|
| Aired on April 19 - hosted by himself
|-
| ''Hallmark Playhouse'' - "Knee Pants"
|
| Aired on June 25
|-
| ''Movietown Radio Theater'' - "The Throwback"
|
| Aired on July 6
|-
|rowspan=2|1951
| ''[[Lux Radio Theater]]'' - "Treasure Island"
| Jim Hawkins
| Aired on January 29
|-
| ''[[Cavalcade of America]]'' - "The Day They Gave Babies Away"
|
| Aired on December 25
|-
|rowspan=2|1953
| ''Family Theater'' - "The Courtship of John Dennis"
|
| Aired on April 8
|-
| ''Lux Radio Theater'' - "Peter Pan"
| Peter Pan
| Aired on December 10
|-
| 1955
| ''Family Theater'' - "The Penalty"
|
| Aired on October 12
|-
| 1956
| ''Family Theatre'' - "Fair Exchange"
|
| Aired on September 19
|-
| 1957
| ''Family Theatre'' - "A Shot in the Dark"
|
| Aired on August 7
|}

==Recordings==
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Recordings
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! Year
! Performance
! Role
! Other notes
|-
| 1946/47
| "So Dear to My Heart" [http://bobby-on-air.chapso.de/]
| Jeremiah Kincaid
| Capitol Records (CDF 3000) - narrated by John Beal
|-
|  1950
| "Treasure Island" [http://bobby-on-air.chapso.de/]
| Jim Hawkins
| [[RCA Records|RCA Victor]] (Y-416) - narrated by Bobby Driscoll
|-
|  1964
| "Treasure Island" [http://bobby-on-air.chapso.de/]
| Jim Hawkins
| [[Disneyland Records]] (DQ-1251) - condensed version of the original motion picture soundtrack - narrated by Del McKennon
|}

==See also==
* [[Wallace Berman]] (painting mentor)

==Footnotes==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Further Reading==
(on Bobby Driscoll or mentioning him significantly)
* '''On BOBBY DRISCOLL'S MOVIES AT THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS'''

Leonard Maltin,
'''The Disney Films''',
copyright by Leonard Maltin, 1973,
Crown Publishers Inc., New York, - Third Printing, 1974,
Library Of Congress Library Card No. 72-84292
ISBN unknown - pages 74, 76, 78, 83-85, 87-88, 97-100, 107

* '''On TREASURE ISLAND - 1950'''

'''Byron Haskin''' - interviewed by Joe Adamson, 
copyright by The Director's Guild Of America and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, N.Y. and London, 1984, 
ISBN 0-8108-1740-3 - pages 166-186

* '''On WHEN I GROW UP - 1951'''

Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni,
'''Sam Spiegel''' - The incredible life and times of Hollywood's most iconoclastic producer [...],
copyright by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, 2003,
Simon & Schuster, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore, 
ISBN 0-684-83619-X - pages 119-20, 134, 143, 267, 361

* '''On THE HAPPY TIME - 1952'''

Richard Fleischer,
'''Just Tell Me When To Cry''' - a Memoir,
copyright by Richard Fleischer, 1993,
Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., New York,
ISBN 0-881-84944-8 - pages 79-83, 103

* '''On PETER PAN - 1953'''
Suzanne Cargiulo (Foreword by Leonard Maltin)
'''Hans Conried''' - a Biography; with a Filmography and a Listing of Radio, Television, Stage and  Voice Work,
copyright by Suzanne Cargiulo, 2002,
Mcfarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina and London,
ISBN 0-7864-1338-7 - pages 73, 78-79, 105

* '''On BOBBY DRISCOLL'S ARTWORKS'''

Michael Duncan and Christine McKenna, 
'''SEMINA CULTURE''' - Wallace Berman & His Circle,
Santa Monica Museum Of Art, 2005,
ISBN unknown - pages 132-135, 233

* '''On WALT DISNEY IN GENERAL'''
(or mentioning him significantly)

Marc Elliot,
'''Walt Disney''' - Hollywood's Dark Prince - A Biography,
copyright by Marc Elliot, 1993, 1994,
Andre Deutsch (publisher) Ltd.,
First (UK) Paperback edition, London, 1995,
ISBN 0-233-98961-7

Leonard Mosley,
'''The Real Walt Disney''' - A Biography,
copyright by Leonard Mosley 1985,
Grafton Books, London, Glasgow, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1986
ISBN 0-246-12439-3

Rudy Behlmer,
'''MEMO''' from David O. Selznick - selected and edited by Rudy Behlmer,
The Viking Press, New York and Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd.,
copyright by Selznick Properties, Ltd., 1972,
ISBN unknown - pages 43n, 310, 431

==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237985/ Bobby Driscoll at IMDB.com]
* [http://www.bobbydriscoll.net A Tribute to Bobby Driscoll] Unofficial Homepage
* [http://www.geocities.com/bkohatl/BobbyDriscoll.html Bobby Driscoll: A Forgotten Life]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8816/ Bobby Driscoll at Find A Grave]