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CBHagman

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20. Actor Tommy Kirk, 79.

Wed Sep 29, 2021, 09:43 PM

Sep 2021

Tommy Kirk, who gained family movie immortality with his role in Old Yeller, has left us.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tommy-kirk-dead-old-yeller-shaggy-dog-1235022775/

Kirk first made his mark starring as sleuth Joe Hardy in a pair of Hardy Boys TV serials, “The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure” and “The Mystery of the Ghost Farm,” offshoots of ABC’s The Mickey Mouse Club that aired in 1956-57.

He also played the middle son, Ernst, in Swiss Family Robinson (1960) — James MacArthur and Kevin Corcoran were his brothers and John Mills and Dorothy McGuire his parents — and starred as college brainiac Merlin Jones opposite Annette Funicello in two more Disney movies.

Kirk brought many a tear to movie audiences’ eyes starring as country kid Travis Coates alongside a heroic Labrador retriever in Old Yeller (1957), then turned into a pooch himself — a sheepdog named Chiffonn — in The Shaggy Dog (1959), the first of four movies he made with Fred MacMurray.

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