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Child Actors (see Biography, Fiction, Cinema)

• Bibliography; see Category:Children--Biblio (film subject)

• Expertise : Actors -- Singers -- Child Actors -- Child Singers -- Film Composers -- Film Directors -- Scriptwriters

• Genres : Feature Films -- Short Films -- TV Films -- TV mini-series -- Animated Feature Films -- Animated Short Films -- Documentaries Film-operas -- Film-plays -- Video Recordings

Overview

Child Actors & Second Temple Judaism

Second Temple Judaism has given to child actors two big roles--Child Jesus and Amahl.

Among the many child actors who have played the role of Child Jesus in films on the Life of Jesus, are Percy Dyer, Renato Visca, Harold Quintin Driscoll, Erik Ode, Richard Palmer, Lorenzo Monet, David Bravo, Matteo Bellina, Gianmarco Giovi, Brando Pacitto, and Adam Greaves-Neal.

The best role for trebles (in films or on the stage) is that of Amahl in the Menotti opera. Among the most notable interpreters are Chet Allen, James Sammarco, Bill McIver, Kirk Jordan and Kurt Yaghjian.

Apart for these two roles, not many opportunities have been offered to child actors. Some notable exceptions are Mickey Moore and Muriel McCormac featured by Cecil B. DeMille in 1927 as Child Mark and a Blind Girl respectively, Paola Tedesco featured as Salome by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1964, and Juliette Caton featured as the Devil by Martin Scorsese in 1988.

Most Famous Child Actors

Born in the 1880s

• Benoit Duval (FRA 1881-...)

Born in the 1890s

• Tom Williamson (GBR) 1891-1959)

-- 1896 -- Gladys Hulette (USA) -- Jack Pickford (USA)

-- 1898 -- # Percy Dyer (GBR) -- Flora Foster (USA)

Born in the 1900s

• Gladys Egan (USA 1900-1985)
• Marie Eline (USA 1902-1981)
• Wesley Barry (USA 1907-1994)
• Gordon Griffith (USA 1907-1958)

-- 1900 -- Edna Foster (USA)

-- 1901 -- Reginald Sheffield (GBR)

-- 1903 -- Eduardo Notari (ITA) -- Ermanno Roveri (ITA) -- Lewis Sargent (USA)

-- 1904 -- Eugenia Clinchard (USA) -- Clara Horton (USA) -- Ernestine Jones (USA) -- Luigi Petrungaro (ITA) -- Violet Radcliffe (USA)

-- 1905 -- Maria Bay (ITA) -- Edouard Trebaol (USA) -- Renato Visca (ITA)

-- 1906 -- Harold Quintin Driscoll (USA) -- Thomas Bellamy (USA) -- Tula Belle (USA) -- Eraldo Giunchi (ITA) Robin Macdougall (USA)

-- 1907 -- Buddy Messinger (USA) --

-- 1908 -- Caterina Catena (ITA) -- Thelma Salter (USA) -- Georgie Stone (USA)

Born in the 1910s

• Jean Forest (FRA 1912-1980)
• Ernst Morrison (USA 1912-1989)
• Jackie Coogan (USA 1914-1984)
• Philippe De Lacy (USA 1917-1995)

-- 1910 -- # Erik Ode (DEU) -- Joe Butterworth (IRL)

-- 1911 -- Ettore Casarotti (ITA) -- Spec O'Donnell (USA) -- Marie Osborne (USA)

-- 1913 -- Robert Gordon (USA)

-- 1914 -- # Michael D. Moore (USA) -- Newton Hall (USA) -- Marcella Sabbatini (ITA)

-- 1915 -- Durkin, Junior (USA) -- Florence Morrison (USA)

-- 1916 -- Eugene Jackson (USA)

-- 1917 -- Frankie Darro (USA) -- Mimmo Palermi (ITA)

-- 1918 -- # Muriel McCormac (USA)

-- 1919 -- Mickey McBan (USA) -- Dorothy Morrison (USA)

Born in the 1920s

• Mickey Rooney (USA 1920-2014)
• Jackie Cooper (USA 1922-2011)
• Judy Garland (USA 1922-1969)
• Freddie Bartholomew (GBR 1924-1992)
• Sabu (IND 1924-1963)
• Bobby Breen (CAN 1927-2016)
• Roddy McDowall (GBR 1928-1998)
• Shirley Temple (USA 1928-2014)

-- 1920 -- Mitzi Green (USA) -- Robert Lynen (FRA) -- Jean Mercanton (FRA)

-- 1921 -- Jackie Searl (USA) -- Frankie Thomas (USA)

-- 1922 -- Franco Brambilla (ITA)

-- 1925 -- Matthew Beard (USA) -- Sammy Davis Jr. (USA) -- Rex Downing (USA) -- Thomas Kelly (USA) -- Pino Locchi (ITA) -- Dickie Moore (USA) -- Donald O'Connor (USA) -- Martin Spellman (USA) --

-- 1926 -- Miranda Bonansea (ITA) -- 1926 Terry Kilburn (USA) -- 1926 Elio Sannangelo (ITA)

-- 1927 -- Philip Hurlic (USA)

-- 1928 -- Sarita Wooton (CUB)

-- 1929 -- Paolo Ferrari (ITA) Billy Lee (USA)

Born in the 1930s

• Johnny Sheffield (1931-2010)
• Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
• Bobby Driscoll (1937-1968)
• Ivan Jandl (1937-1987)
• Margaret O'Brien (1937)
• Natalie Wood (1938-1981)
• Enzo Staiola (1939)

• Brandon De Wilde (1942-1972)
• Billy Chapin (1943-2016)
• Patty McCormack (1945)
• Nikolaj Burljaev (1946) RUS
• Hayley Mills (1946) GBR
• George Winslow (1946) USA

• Ron Howard (1954) USA
• Peter Ostrum (1957)
• Kevin Hooks (1958)
• Mark Lester (1958)
• Johnny Whitaker (1959)

• Jodie Foster (1962)
• Andrea Balestri (1963)
• Tatum O'Neal (1963)
• Quinn Cummings (1967)

• Danny de Munk (1970)
• Rick Schroder (1970)
• Justin Henry (1971)
• Christian Bale (1974)
• Fred Savage (1976)
• Salvatore Cascio (1979)

• Macaulay Culkin (1980)
• Elijah Wood (1981)
• Joseph Mazzello (1983)
• Jamie Bell (1986)
• Haley Joel Osment (1988)
• Daniel Radcliffe (1989)

• Giorgio Cantarini (1992)
• Freddie Highmore (1992)
• Dakota Fanning (1994)
• Tom Holland (1994)

External links

• The Sky Kid: Young Talent in Music and the Arts