- His childhood earnings were well invested for him, leaving him independently wealthy while still in his 30s.
- Left films at the age of eleven when he developed a nervous stutter which never left him, even as an adult.
- In his adult years he supervised the East Texas Water System, and ran a chain of car wash outlets.
- Son of actress Doris Dudley.
- Appeared under the direction of two Oscar winners (Fred Zinnemann and Norman Taurog) and three Oscar nominees (Clarence Brown, King Vidor and S. Sylvan Simon).
- Appeared in four movies with fellow child actor Charles Bates: An American Romance (1944), Little Mister Jim (1946), My Brother Talks to Horses (1947) and Summer Holiday (1948).
- Popular freckle-faced, buck-toothed child star of the 40's.
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