Category:Child Actors

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

-- 1881 -- Benoit Duval (FRA)

Born in the 1890s

-- 1891 -- Tom Williamson (GBR)

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

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

Born in the 1900s

-- 1900 -- Gladys Egan (USA) -- Edna Foster (USA)

-- 1901 -- Reginald Sheffield (GBR)

-- 1902 -- Marie Eline (USA)

-- 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 -- Wesley Barry (USA) -- Gordon Griffith (USA) -- Buddy Messinger (USA)

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

Born in the 1910s

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

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

-- 1912 -- Jean Forest (FRA) -- Ernst Morrison (USA)

-- 1913 -- Robert Gordon (USA)

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

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

-- 1916 -- Eugene Jackson (USA)

-- 1917 -- Frankie Darro (USA) -- Philippe De Lacy (FRA) -- 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) -- Mickey Rooney (USA)

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

-- 1922 -- Franco Brambilla (ITA) -- Jackie Cooper (USA) -- Judy Garland (USA)

-- 1924 -- Freddie Bartholomew (GBR) -- Sabu (IND)

-- 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) -- Terry Kilburn (USA) -- Elio Sannangelo (ITA)

-- 1927 -- Bobby Breen (CAN) -- Philip Hurlic (USA)

-- 1928 -- Roddy McDowall (GBR) -- Shirley Temple (USA) -- Sarita Wooton (CUB)

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