Trivia

Played Kevin Corcoran's brother in five different films: Old Yeller (1957), The Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Bon Voyage! (1962) and Savage Sam (1963).

He, along with Tim Considine, Kevin Corcoran and David Stollery were named "Disney Legends" for their work in TV and film. joining the company of such stalwart contributors as Fred MacMurray, Fess Parker, Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills, Kurt Russell, John Mills and Ed Wynn.

For over twenty years he operated a most successful carpet / upholstery cleaning business.

Was about to co-star in the John Wayne movie The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) when in 1964 he was busted at a Christmas Eve party using marijuana. As a result, he was replaced by Michael Anderson Jr..

According to Thomas A. Stebick, who interviewed Tommy for an April 2016 Classic Images magazine article, Tommy, who loved horseback riding, loved animals from a very young age and had a quarter horse named Bell in California for about five years which the family kept at a nearby stable.

When he was 21, Kirk was fired from Disney after his relationship with a 15 year-old boy was brought to the studio's attention, as Kirk discussed in a 1993 interview.

Provided lead voice-over work with Sandra Dee in the animated Russian film The Snow Queen (1957) at Universal. The film won the 1957 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award in the animated film category and first place in the animated group at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

Father, Louie Aljoe Kirk, was a mechanic and mother, Lucy Virginia (Day), a legal secretary. He had three brothers: Joe, Andy and John.

In July 1996, he was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina along with Morgan Woodward, Tony Young, Patricia Blair, Roberta Shore, Gregory Walcott, Gene Evans, Justin Tubb, Adrian Booth, Robert F. Hoy, Neil Summers and Dale Berry.

In 1976 he was asked to appear in a western entitled "My Name Is Legend" that filmed in Wichita, but the film was never finished.

Along with fellow Mouseketeer Judy Harriet, Kirk was sent by Disney to be a teenage correspondent covering the 1956 Democratic Convention in Chicago and the Republican Convention in San Francisco.

There was talk of Tommy starring in "Rainbow to Oz" as a young Davy Crockett but the project never came to fruition.

His body was cremated, and the urn of ashes was given to his family.

Born on exactly the same date as Fionnula Flanagan.