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Brandon De Wilde

Brandon De Wilde

Actor · 1942 – 1972 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Andre Brandon deWilde (April 9, 1942 – July 6, 1972) was an American theatre and film actor. He was born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn. Debuting on Broadway at the age of 7, De Wilde became a national phenomenon by the time he completed his 492 performances for The Member of the Wedding and was considered a child prodigy. Before the age of 12 he had become the first child actor awarded the Donaldson Award, filmed his role in The Member of the Wedding, starred in his most memorable film role as Joey Starrett in the film Shane (1953), been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, starred in his own sitcom television series Jamie on ABC and became a household name making numerous radio and TV appearances before being featured on the cover of Life magazine on March 10, 1952, for his second Broadway outing Mrs. McThing. Into adulthood, additional plays, movies and TV appearances followed before his death at age 30 in a motor vehicle accident in Colorado, on July 6, 1972. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brandon De Wilde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Series24

  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV7.9

    Combat!

    1962 · 119 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Defenders

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 266 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV6.6
  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    1950 · 13 votes

  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV7.2

    12 O'Clock High

    1964 · 21 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.5
  • TV5.8

    The Nurses

    1962 · 3 votes

  • TV6.8

    ABC Stage 67

    1966 · 6 votes

  • TV7.0

    Journey to the Unknown

    1968 · 4 votes

  • TV10.0

    Jamie

    1953 · 1 votes

Movies14

  • Movie7.3

    Hud

    1963 · 371 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Shane

    1953 · 708 votes

  • Movie6.6

    In Harm's Way

    1965 · 167 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Those Calloways

    1964 · 32 votes

  • Movie5.9

    A Gathering of Eagles

    1963 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Trip

    1967 · 115 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Night Passage

    1957 · 85 votes

  • Movie6.5

    La spina dorsale del diavolo

    The Deserter

    1970 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie7.8

    Good-bye, My Lady

    1956 · 8 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Wild in the Sky

    1972 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Missouri Traveler

    1958 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.0

    All Fall Down

    1962 · 30 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Blue Denim

    1959 · 12 votes