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 d...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Once Upon a Studio
2023
as Peter Pan (voice) (archive footage)
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
2002
as Goofy Jr.
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 t...
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997
as Self (archive footage)
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...
Disney's Halloween Treat
1982
as Peter Pan (voice) (archive footage)
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and...
Disney's Greatest Villains
1977
as Peter Pan (voice) (archive footage)
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, the...
Dirt
1965
as Nun
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
Lilies of the Field
1963
as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
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 ...
The Party Crashers
1958
as Josh Bickford
Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Day is Done
1955
as Pvt. Zane
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...
The Scarlet Coat
1955
as Ben Potter
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
Peter Pan
1953
as Peter Pan (voice)
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 Ne...
The Peter Pan Story
1952
as Self
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 fe...
The Happy Time
1952
as Robert 'Bibi' Bonnard
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Father's Lion
1952
as Goofy Jr. (voice)
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 Geor...
The Walt Disney Christmas Show
1951
as Peter Pan
The Walt Disney Christmas Show is a Christmas television special, originally broadcast on Christmas Day of 1951. The then-upcoming Disney film Peter P...
Fathers Are People
1951
as Goofy Jr. (voice) (uncredited)
George Geef rushes to the office to inform his fellow employees, "Hey, fellas! I'm a father!". Unfortunately, Geef later learns that, with fatherhood,...
When I Grow Up
1951
as Josh / Danny Reed
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....
One Hour in Wonderland
1950
as Self - Peter Pan
Airing on Christmas Day, 1950, this holiday special was the first Disney TV production. It features Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Sn...
Treasure Island
1950
as Jim Hawkins
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribb...
The Window
1949
as Tommy Woodry
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 h...
So Dear to My Heart
1948
as Jeremiah 'Jerry' Kincaid
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 overcom...
Melody Time
1948
as Bobby Driscoll
In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unf...
If You Knew Susie
1948
as Junior Parker
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...
Song of the South
1946
as Johnny
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...
O.S.S.
1946
as Gerard
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII...
So Goes My Love
1946
as Percy Maxim
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 i...
From This Day Forward
1946
as Billy Beesley
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 no...
Identity Unknown
1945
as Toddy Loring
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' b...
The Big Bonanza
1944
as Spud Kilton
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 b...
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
1944
as Jeep Osborne
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 ...
The Fighting Sullivans
1944
as Al, as a child (uncredited)
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 i...