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Known for:	Peter Pan, Song of the South, Treasure Island
Birth name:	Robert Cletus Driscoll
Birthday:	3 March 1937, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Was the first actor to sign long-term deal with Walt Disney's animation dept. When found dead, his identity was unknown and he was buried as a "John Doe" in pauper's grave. A year later, fingerprints finally revealed his identity. Driscoll's body was discovered in an abandoned Greenwich Village tenament by two children playing there on March 30, 1968. His voice was used for Walt Disney's feature Peter Pan and an actual "acting" performance was filmed, then rotoscoped for the animated character. One of cinema's most critically acclaimed boy actors, he won a special Academy Award at age 12 as the "outstanding juvenile actor" of 1949 for his excellent work in the films So Dear to My Heart and The Window. Even though his character was animated he was the first boy ever to play Peter Pan. Before then only women played Peter Pan. Buried in a mass grave on New York's Hart Island, better known as Potter's Field. Even though he was the studio's first contract player, Disney terminated Driscoll's second five-year contract two years early, in 1953, after the theatrical release of Peter Pan. It is generally believed that his clinically severe acne was the reason. This prevented him from playing other feature roles for the studio that would seem to be tailor-made for him, like Johnny Tremain and The Light in the Forest.

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