CHILD STARS

CHILD STARS

October 17, 2023 Alan Royle 1

   LEE AAKER & RUSTY (1943 – ) Lee Aaker was born in September 1943, in Los Angeles where his mother owned a dance studio. The boy was on TV almost from infancy and in bit parts in movies from the age of eight. His uncredited parts were in some […]

TV WESTERNS – 50s, 60s & 70s – PT1.

TV WESTERNS – 50s, 60s & 70s – PT1.

June 5, 2020 Alan Royle 0

    For all those baby-boomers (like myself) who grew from childhood to adolescence to adulthood watching innumerable western series on television throughout the 50s, 60s & 70s, below is a list of pretty much every series that graced our home screens during those formative years. The only omissions are […]

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT1.

KIDS & JUVENILES – PT1.

May 14, 2019 Alan Royle 0

  Ever since the movies began at the turn of the 20th century, there have been child and juvenile stars, male and female, who have turned out to be walking gold mines for the studios. Some have even been responsible for saving their respective studios from going under. Until around […]

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Child Stars of Bygone Days – PT1

December 27, 2017 Alan Royle 0

This is the first article about the myriad child stars who graced movies and television since the very beginning of the movie industry until around 1980. I have left out the more recent ones because their stories are mostly still to be written. So, we shall take a trip down […]