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Pow · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:20 pm Post subject: Tommy Kirk-R.I.P.

Walt Disney star Tommy Kirk (December 10, 1941~ September 28, 2021) has passed away at 79.

Tommy starred in the classic Disney movies Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson among others.

Gord Green · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:00 am Post subject:

Also a Mousekateer and star of Village of the Giants, MARS NEEDS WOMEN, Moon Pilot and The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure!
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:02 pm Post subject:

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My favorite Tommy Kirk role is the younger brother in Swiss Family Robinson, a wonderful movie.

But he's also very enjoyable in The Shaggy Dog and many other movies.
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Pow · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 3:17 pm Post subject:

Gord, Tommy was never a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club. Tommy played boy detective Joe Hardy on two Hardy Boys serials which were run on The Mickey Mouse Club.

The Hardy Boys: "The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure" from 1956, and The Hardy Boys: "The Mystery of the Ghost Farm" from 1957.

Both are entertaining but I thought that the Applegate story was more intriguing than Ghost Farm.

Tommy became a Disney Legend in a ceremony held on October 9, 2006. Tommy's co-stars Tim Considine (The Hardy Boys, The Shaggy Dog), and Kevin Corcoran (Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, and Savage Sam) were also inducted in the same ceremony.

Krel · Guest

I remember him more from the two Merlin Jones movies.

David.