He won a special Oscar as a kid and was one of Disney's first contract players. He died penniless in a tenement house in the Bronx and was buried in Potter's Field. What else do we know? What do we think?
There's not much to know. Kenneth Anger did a piece on him in his "Hollywood Babylon II." He was a delightful child star but grew up into an acned teenager. His career dried up. He got into drugs. He died penniless and alone. It was just another sad Hollywood tale. A shame, but not that unusual, although Driscoll's was one of the most severe cases of how you can go from Hollywood success to total failure.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 18, 2020 1:35 AM |
They need to make Best Performance By A Juvenile a permanent thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 18, 2020 1:42 AM |
Was he molested?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 18, 2020 2:37 AM |
He was also the model and voice for Disney's Peter Pan.
Driscoll didn't age well at all. He wound up with cystic acne, which put a quick end to his acting career. Then he got involved with drugs. Very sad.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 18, 2020 10:25 AM |