He once said of his time at Disney: “…dropped like garbage when I was no longer a cute little kid and I didn’t appeal to anymore.” After doing some research, I uncovered that other child actors, who worked for Disney, suffered not much better: I first became interested in the fate of Disney child stars when I unintentionally discovered that Bobby Driscoll, the first bonafide live Disney star, who was featured in “Song of the South” and “Treasure Island,” met an untimely end as a transient mentally disturbed drug addict in New York City: dying at the age of 31 and buried in an unmarked grave as an unidentified person.
