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Old Yeller was released on December 25, 1957, to critical acclaim, and was a commercial success, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 1957 and earning $6.25 million in the United States and Canada.
Thomas Lee Kirk (December 10, 1941 − September 28, 2021) [1] was an American actor, best known for his performances in films made by Walt Disney Studios such as Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, The Absent-Minded Professor, and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, as well as the beach party films of the mid-1960s.
Old Yeller is a 1956 children's novel written by Fred Gipson [1] and illustrated by Carl Burger. [2] It received a Newbery Honor in 1957. [ 3 ] In 1957, Walt Disney released a film adaptation starring Tommy Kirk , Fess Parker , Dorothy McGuire , Kevin Corcoran , Jeff York , Chuck Connors , and Beverly Washburn .
‘Old Yeller’ (1957) Why It Makes Boomers Cry: This classic Disney film starred Tommy Kirk as a teenager helping his family run a Texas homestead while the father is away — and the stray dog ...
The success of this performance led her to being cast in a series of "mother" roles, continuing with Old Yeller (1957) at Disney. [1] McGuire returned to Broadway in Winesburg, Ohio (1958), which had a short run, then she played a wife and mother in The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959) at Fox.
Tommy Kirk, the actor known for playing Travis Coates in “Old Yeller” and several other Disney films, was found dead in his Las Vegas home Tuesday. He was 79. Kirk’s longtime friend Paul ...
Washburn began her career as a child actor, when she was three years old, [2] appearing in The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) and Frank Capra's Here Comes the Groom (1951). Her subsequent film credits included a supporting role in the Walt Disney feature Old Yeller (1957), [4] for which she is the last surviving cast member of the film. [5]
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