Tommy Kirk Death – Tommy Kirk Death – Tommy Kirk, one of Disney’s significant youthful stars of the 1950s and mid-’60s with exhibitions in generational standard movies like Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, and Son of Flubber, passed on Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 79.
Kirk said in a 1993 meeting with Filmfax magazine author Kevin Minton that he understood he was gay at age 17 or 18 and that his sexual direction everything except annihilated his vocation.
Even though he left the Disney youth films behind by the mid-’60s — following featuring jobs in Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Babes in Toyland (1961), Moon Pilot (1962), Bon Voyage! (1962), Savage Sam (an Old Yeller continuation in 1963), The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964), and The Monkey’s Uncle (1965) — Kirk proceeded to show up in a line of the well-known seashore party motion pictures of that decade. He played a Martian in the 1964 element film Pajama Party and was featured in The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) and It’s a Bikini World (1967).
A couple of minor engagements with the law over drug ownership during the 1960s additionally added to his vocation issues, with a weed captured supposedly prompting his being dropped from 1965’s How to Stuff a Wild Bikini featuring Annette Funicello and, in the job planned for Kirk, Dwayne Hickman.
Notwithstanding the seashore motion pictures, Kirk showed up in different low-financial plan science fiction films that went from drive-in charge to faction exemplary records, including 1965’s awkward Village of the Giants, inverse Beau Bridges and Ron Howard, and 1968’s Mars Needs Women.
Brought into the world in Lexington, KY, Kirk hadn’t yet arrived at his second birthday celebration when he and his family moved to Downey, CA, and at age 13 he went with his sibling, Joe, to a tryout of Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse. Joe lost the part to a youthful entertainer named Bobby Driscoll (who himself would turn into a Disney star, voicing the title character of Peter Pan, before being given up by the studio. He passed on in 1968 at age 31 following quite a while of illicit drug use).
