- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDouglas Malcom Wheatcroft
- Who was the first "Robin, the Boy Wonder"? No, not Burt Ward, but this popular, curly-haired child actor of the 1940s. In addition to being in the first "Batman" film, he appeared in many other major films, mostly at Warner Brothers. In almost all of these films, he played the hero as a boy, "growing up" to be, among others, James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Gary Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Ronald Reagan in Kings Row (1942). Not much is known of him after he dropped out of acting towards the end of the decade.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bob Sorrentino
- Parents
- Douglas Croft died at the Palomar Hotel in Los Angeles, California, near the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and Western Ave. just down the street from 20th Century Fox' Hollywood studios. He died from acute alcohol intoxication and liver disease.
- Croft was the youngest actor to play Robin, the Boy Wonder. He was actually sixteen at the time of filming in Batman (1943).
- Served in the United States Army during World War II.
- Croft became the first actor to play the Robin, the Boy Wonder when he portrayed the character in Batman (1943).
- Interred at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego
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