Phoenix's close friend, musician Bob Forrest, later said that drugs were the norm within their showbiz circle. 2014 (July 6, 2014) http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1919236_1919237_1919234,00.html, Vienna City Administration. Please note: You are asking volunteers to find and take a photo of the headstone. 'If you decide not to come back, I will cut your throat,' he said, according to a relative." At 8 years old, Billy Laughlin was cast as Froggy in Our Gang in 1940, but when the series ended, he left show business. According to History, "On January 21, 1959, Switzer and a friend went to the Mission Hills home of Moses 'Bud' Stiltz, to collect a debt Switzer believed he was owed. His casting was suggested by screenwriter Michael Kanin. Sorry! Fred Gwynne plays against type as a judge in the 1992 film 'My Cousin Vinny. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. 2014. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Cletus L. Driscoll (1901 – 1969)  Sibling:  Bobby Driscoll (1937 – 1968)  Bobby Driscoll (1937 – 1968)* *Calculated relationshipCause of death: Heart attack brought on by liver failure and advanced arteriosclerosis. Dana Plato starred as Kim Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes from 1978, when she was 14, until 1984, when she was written off the series, allegedly due to drug use. A fingerprint check conducted by NYPD revealed that the unidentified body they had buried was that of Bobby Driscoll." Mason, Jolene. Roy Orbison's widow Barbara and sons pose at his installation into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010. Bobby died penniless and alone in an abandoned New York tenement and is buried in Potter's Field on nearby Hart Island. "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart." I thought you might like to see a memorial for Robert Lee “Bobby” Driscoll I found on Findagrave.com.

Director Richard Linklater cast her as spunky pitcher Amanda Whurlitzer "after she threw a 75 mph fastball at a casting call," reported the New York Daily News. Their barber's son, an actor, got Bobby an audition at MGM for a role in the family drama Lost Angel (1943), which starred Margaret O'Brien. Though she never acted again, Kraft had reportedly shifted her focus to higher education and music, playing in a band called Scary Girls.

In ill health due to his substance abuse, and with his funds depleted, his body was discovered on March 30, 1968, in an abandoned building in the East Village of Manhattan. GREAT NEWS!

If a new volunteer signs up in your requested photo location, they may see your existing request and take the photo. Plato's son, 25-year-old Tyler Lambert, reportedly committed suicide in 2010. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional, No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Besides the suspense movie “The Window,” he is best known for his work in “Song of the South” (1946) and “Treasure Island” (1950). His unclaimed body was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in New York City's Potter's Field on Hart Island. He married Marilyn Jean Rush in early 1957 and had three children (two daughters and one son). When they rejected me, I fought back, became belligerent and cocky—and was afraid all the time.

Try again later. According to the 1946 Song of the South campaign book, the Driscoll family settled in Pasadena, CA in an effort to relieve Cletus Driscoll (Bobby's father) of sinus conditions. His mother reportedly did not disclose her son's death until the re-release of his first Disney film, Song of the South, in 1971. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. 107872181, citing Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Hilliard, Franklin County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by …

In some special star-focusing series, Driscoll appeared with Loretta Young, Gloria Swanson, and Jane Wyman. A court battle over his estate ensued, revealing that "Price had an open, romantic relationship with another man during part of the time she claimed that she was actually married to Coleman," according to Forbes. He had several run-ins with the law, and was incarcerated in 1961. According to the Los Angeles Times, she was an "innocent victim" who was simply "hanging out with friends in front of an apartment complex.".

[25] However, during a project meeting following the completion of Peter Pan, Disney stated that he now saw Driscoll as best suited for roles as a young bully rather than a likeable protagonist.

In late 1969, Bobby's mother contacted Walt Disney Studios in the hopes of finding him for a reunion with his ailing father. With your free account at foundagrave.com, you can add your loved ones, friends, and idols to our growing database of "Deceased but not Forgotten" records. Here are 10 famous people buried in unmarked graves from HowStuffWorks. 2014. He died in 1936 at just 21 years old while undergoing surgery for a glandular condition. When acting jobs ran dry, Driscoll found himself pushed to the side.

For help using the website visit our help page or contact support@findagrave.com. "On March 30, 1968, two kids playing in a deserted tenement building [in New York] found the corpse of a homeless young man with needle marks covering both arms," the Enquirer reported. I tried desperately to be one of the gang. "Internet Train Leads to John Wayne." The boys didn't act after the series ended, and the National Enquirer (via Radar Online) reported that Sawyer was in debt and depressed after suffering from bullying and loneliness. According to her former manager, Mike Meyer, "Of all the things she was proud of, (she was proudest) of being elected president of her fifth grade class at Big Bear Elementary School.". You need a Find a Grave account to add things to this site. "In 1969, about nineteen months after his death, Driscoll's mother sought the help of Disney Studio execs in finding her son in an attempt to reunite Bobby with his dying father. Bobby went on to play notable performances in Disney movies such as Melody Time (1948), Pecos Bill (1948), So Dear To My Heart (1949), Treasure Island (1950), and the voice of Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1953), his last production with Disney. (July 7, 2014) http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_smith_bessie.htm, Goodman, Dean. Driscoll's last major success, Peter Pan (1953), was produced largely between May 1949 and mid 1951.