Brandon De Wilde
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1942-04-09
Deathday 1972-07-06 (30 years old)
Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As Brandon de Wilde, Brandon deWilde, Брендон Де Уайлд, André Brandon deWilde
Brandon De Wilde
Biography
Andre Brandon deWilde (April 9, 1942 – July 6, 1972) was an American theatre and film actor. He was born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn. Debuting on Broadway at the age of 7, De Wilde became a national phenomenon by the time he completed his 492 performances for The Member of the Wedding and was considered a child prodigy. Before the age of 12 he had become the first child actor awarded the Donaldson Award, filmed his role in The Member of the Wedding, starred in his most memorable film role as Joey Starrett in the film Shane (1953), been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, starred in his own sitcom television series Jamie on ABC and became a household name making numerous radio and TV appearances before being featured on the cover of Life magazine on March 10, 1952, for his second Broadway outing Mrs. McThing. Into adulthood, additional plays, movies and TV appearances followed before his death at age 30 in a motor vehicle accident in Colorado, on July 6, 1972. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brandon De Wilde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Josh
as Ferguson
as Johnson
as Nathan Hale
as Jimmy Devlin
as Alec George Worthing
as Arnold Potter
as Bobby Currier
as Extra (uncredited)
as Carl Boyer
as Ens. Jeremiah 'Jere' Torrey
as Bucky Calloway
as Jim Tevis
as Cpl. Ross Lawrence
as Bill Fowler Jr (uncredited)
as Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon
as Vic Hawkins
as Clinton Willart
as Wilder
as Paul Marker
as James 'Mike Flynn' Cafferty
as Walt Bradbury
as Rem Garvey
as Roger Bailey Jr.
as Weissberg
as Timothy Branner
as Arthur Bartley
as Byron Turner
as Joey Adams
as Mark Miner
as Daniel Morgan Benedict III
as Skeeter Jackson
as Hugo
as Robbie Eunson
as Tip Malone
as Joey Starrett
as Jamie McHummer
as Self
as John Henry
as Self
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Self
Director
as Co-Director