![]() His performance in that led to him auditioning for Columbia chief Harry Cohn for the role of Arthur “Pinky” Thompson in Once Upon a Time, based on the radio play My Client Curly. ![]() ![]() In 1943, Donaldson was back on Broadway alongside Gregory Peck, Stella Adler and Geraldine Fitzgerald as a younger version of Kenneth Tobey’s character in Sons and Soldiers, directed by Max Reinhardt. Also that year, he played Tiny Tim opposite Edmund Gwenn as Scrooge in a weeklong serialized radio version of A Christmas Carol. After his mother, Jo, died when he was just months old, his dad married organist/composer Muriel Pollock.ĭonaldson attended the Professional Children’s School in New York and had a magic act, and he joined the original Broadway production of Life With Father as the son Harlan in 1941. His father was singer-composer Will Donaldson (he co-wrote “Do Wacka Do,” years later a hit for Roger Miller). The first one, Adventures of Rusty (1945), featured Ace the Wonder Dog.Īn only child, Donaldson was born in Brooklyn on Aug. ![]() He also starred as Danny Mitchell in eight B-movies from Columbia Pictures that revolved around a German shepherd named Rusty. Critic's Appreciation: Tina Turner, Survivor and Supernova ![]()
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