Bobby Driscoll Filmography

Disneyland: Disneyland, the Park, and Pecos Bill

Actors: Roy Rogers, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, The Sons of the Pioneers

Synopsis: The first portion of this Disneyland episode brings viewers up to date on construction of the Disneyland theme park as of the spring of 1957. Somehow or other, this segues into an illustrated history of American folklore. The episode's final segment consists of the "Pecos Bill" segment from the Read More

The Scarlet Coat

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, Sr., Anne Francis, George Sanders, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably subtle menace by Robert Douglas, while his principal co-conspirator, Major John Andre, is essayed by Michael Wilding. The largely speculative storyline concerns the efforts Read More

Big Jim

Synopsis: Big Jim is a 30-minute episode of the popular 1950s TV anthology The Loretta Young Show. After Young swirls through her famous door, dressed to the nines, she offers a brief introduction to this human interest saga. Playing the mother of a teenager (played by Bobby Driscoll), Loretta meets her son Read More

Peter Pan

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel

Synopsis: A pet project of Walt Disney's since 1939, this animated version of James M. Barrie's Peter Pan reached full fruition in 1953. Eschewing much of Barrie's gentle whimsy (not to mention the more sinister aspects of the leading character), Disney and his staff fashioned a cheery, tuneful cartoon Read More

Dragnet: The Big Sophomore

Synopsis: A twelve-block residential area has been targeted by an elusive thief who preys on small businesses. The thief's MO is a strange one; he follows no set pattern, and never steals more than five dollars' worth of merchandise. Detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) finally catch up Read More

The Happy Time

Actors: Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Kurt Kasznar, Linda Christian

Synopsis: The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by Robert Fontaine. Set in Quebec during the early part of the 20th century, the film concentrates on the activities of a large French-Canadian family headed by Charles Boyer. Most Read More

When I Grow Up

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Preston, Martha Scott, Sherry Jackson, John McGovern

Synopsis: When I Grow Up is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, Bobby chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather (Charley Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea

Synopsis: The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy who battles the pirate Long John Silver Read More

The Window

Actors: Barbara Hale, Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: Widely regarded as a "model" B-movie thriller, The Window stars Bobby Driscoll as a young boy prone to fibs. Thus, no one believes him when he claims to have seen a murder in a neighboring apartment. No one, that is, except the killers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman). Realizing he won't get any help Read More

If You Knew Susie

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, Allyn Joslyn, Charles Dingle, Phil Brown

Synopsis: Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money into the RKO Radio musical If You Knew Susie. Cantor and his Show Business co-star Joan Davis are reteamed herein as ex-vaudevillians Sam and Susie Parker, who retire to a Read More

So Dear to My Heart

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Beulah Bondi, Burl Ives, Luana Patten, Harry Carey

Synopsis: Like Disney's earlier Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart peppers its live action with animated sequences. In this film, however, it is the "live" story that lingers longest in the memory. Set in 1903, the film takes place on the small Kincaid farm. Twin sheep are born in the barn: one white Read More

Melody Time

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dennis Day

Synopsis: Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one of the best. But for the fact that all of the featured segments have musical themes, they vary widely in musical and artistic style. Included are the exciting "Bumble Read More

Song of the South

Actors: James Baskett, Anita Brown, Bobby Driscoll, Mary Field, Gene Holland

Synopsis: Song of the South is a blend of live action and animation, based on the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Set in the years just after the Civil War, the story begins with young Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) being sent to live at the southern plantation of his grandmother (Lucile Watson Read More

From This Day Forward

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary de Camp, Bobby Driscoll, Henry Morgan, Wally Brown

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the early days of their marriage. When they meet in 1938, Bill is working as a machinist, and Susan is a clerk in a bookstore. They fall in love and decide to wed, but it's not Read More

So Goes My Love

Actors: Myrna Loy, Don Ameche, Rhys Williams, Bobby Driscoll, Richard Gaines

Synopsis: Don Ameche stars in this semi-screwball comedy as a handsome, eccentric 19th century inventor. Myrna Loy is his golddigging fiancee, who foolishly believes Ameche will make her financially secure. Love triumphs over greed, and Loy happily marries the inventor, who'll offer little in the way of Read More

O.S.S.

Actors: Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Richard Benedict, Richard Webb

Synopsis: Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained American O.S.S. agents who parachute into France to destroy the vital Corbett Mallon tunnel to stop the German invaders from shipping supplies to their troops. One of the Read More

Miss Susie Slagle's

Actors: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Joan Caulfield, Ray Collins, Billy De Wolfe, Bill Edwards

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker, the provocatively titled Miss Susie Slagle's is actually a leisurely, sentimental story set in a turn-of-the-century boarding house. The title character, played by Lillian Gish, is the house's landlady, catering exclusively to young doctors and nurses in Read More

Identity Unknown

Actors: Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker, Roger Pryor, Bobby Driscoll, Lola Lane

Synopsis: Predating 20th Century-Fox's Somewhere in the Night by at least a year, Identity Unknown is one of the first (if not the first) 1940s melodramas centering around an amenisiac ex-GI. Richard Arlen plays Johnny March, who returns from WW2 with nary a clue as to his true identity or the details of Read More

Lost Angel

Actors: Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Philip Merivale, Keenan Wynn, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: Margaret O'Brien, MGM's newest child sensation, was given her first starring vehicle with Lost Angel. O'Brien plays Alpha, who has been groomed to be a genius by a trio of well-meaning but misguided professors (Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill and Donald Meek). Taking pity on the reluctant prodigy Read More

The Sullivans

Actors: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond, Edward Ryan, Bobby Driscoll, Trudy Marshall, Selena Royle

Synopsis: The Sullivans attempts to find the positives in one of the most tragic chapters of World War II. Edward Ryan, John Campbell, James B. Cardwell, John Alvin and George Offerman Jr. play the Sullivan brothers, sons of an Iowa railroad worker (Thomas Mitchell) and his wife (Selena Royle). The film Read More

The Big Bonanza

Actors: Richard Arlen, Jane Frazee, Robert Livingston, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lynne Roberts

Synopsis: The Big Bonanza was a Republic Studios in-betweener: too elaborate for B picture, not expensive enough for an "A". Richard Arlen stars as an army deserter who heads back to his home town. Unable to hold down a legitimate job, Arlen falls in with childhood chum Robert Livingston, now a high-rolling Read More

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier

Actors: Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Charles Winninger, Anne Revere

Synopsis: Charles Winninger plays an old seaman who rules the roost in his family, which resides on a Florida houseboat. His oldest granddaughter (Anne Baxter) draws up plans to invite a serviceman for Sunday dinner, just before the boy will be shipped out. Because of their ramshackle lifestyle, Winninger's Read More