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Tommy Kirk
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk (born December 10, 1941) is an American former actor and later a businessman. He is best known for his performances in a number of highly popular movies made by Walt Disney Studios such as ''Old Yeller'', ''The Shaggy Dog'' and ''The Misadventures of Merlin Jones'', as well as beach party movies of the mid 1960s.
==Early career==
Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky, one of four sons. His father was a mechanic who worked for the Highway Department; his mother, a legal secretary. Looking for better job opportunities, they moved to Downey in Los Angeles County, California, when Kirk was fifteen months old.〔Freida Zylstra, 'Actor Tommy Kirk Tries His Hand in Kitchen', ''Chicago Daily Tribune'' (1923–1963) (Illinois ) 18 Jan 1963: b7.〕〔
In 1954, Kirk accompanied his elder brother Joe to an audition for a production of Eugene O'Neill's ''Ah, Wilderness!'' at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Joe was not cast, losing out to Bobby Driscoll, but Tommy was, and he made his stage debut opposite Will Rogers, Jr.〔'Will Rogers, Jr. Makes Auspicious Stage Debut', ''Los Angeles Times'' (1923–Current File) (Angeles, Calif ) 21 Aug 1954: 13.〕 The performance was seen by an agent from the Gertz agency who signed Kirk and succeeded in casting him in an episode of ''TV Reader's Digest'', "The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs".
Kirk began to work steadily in television: episodes of ''The Man Behind the Badge'', ''Frontier'', ("The Devil and Doctor O'Hara"), ''Letter to Loretta'' ("But for God's Grace", "Little League"), ''The Californians'' (as Billy Kilgore in "Little Lost Man"), ''Gunsmoke'' ("Cow Doctor"), ''Angel'' ("Goodbye, Young Lovers"), ''Big Town,'' and ''Matinee Theatre'' ("The Outing", "The Others"). Kirk also supported Angie Dickinson in a short feature called ''Down Liberty Road'' (aka ''Freedom Highway'') (1956),〔(Archive.org )〕 a short commercial travelogue produced by Greyhound Lines to promote their Scenicruiser buses. Of these experiences, Kirk especially liked working on ''Matinee Theatre'':
I did thirty-seven of those in the next five years. I think I did more than any other actor. That was a fantastic training ground. They were hour-long shows, telecast live from coast to coast. I worked with some fascinating people—Sarah Churchill and others — and I started getting known.〔Jones interview〕
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