Bobby Driscoll

Bobby Driscoll was an American child and youngadult actor whose substantial career included work on the screen television stage and radio The 1949 films So Dear to My Heart and The Window earned him an Academy Award as the years outstanding juvenile actor His career and life eventually gradually went into decline In late 1961 addicted to drugs having begun using when 17 he was sentenced to prison In 1965 a year after his parole expired he relocated to New York City He was found dead in an abandoned East Village tenement in March 1968