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The heartbreaking fate of BOBBY “Peter Pan” DRISCOLL, Disney’s FIRST child star, whose road to ruin ended with heroin.
Fatal addiction to drugs destroyed Bobby Driscoll’s brilliant career as a child star and left him for dead in an abandoned New York City tenement at age 31.
Bobby took Hollywood by storm when his parents moved there from Cedars Rapids, Iowa. After an audition with MGM he won a role in “Lost Angel” with Margaret O’Brien.
Soon, the major studios were clamoring for his talent and Walt Disney personally signed Driscoll as the first live action star to be placed under contract to the animation kingpin.
In his Disney bio, author Mark Elliot described Driscoll as Walt’s favorite "live action" child star: "Walt often referred to Driscoll with great affection as the living embodiment of his own youth.”
