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.

Filmography

• 1972Wild in the Sky — Josh
• Night Gallery — Johnson
• 1970The Deserter — Ferguson
• The Young Rebels — Nathan Hale
• Hawaii Five-O — Arnold Potter
• Love, American Style — Jimmy Devlin
• Journey to the Unknown — Alec George Worthing
• The Name of the Game — Bobby Currier
• Ironside
• 1967The Trip — Extra (uncredited)
• ABC Stage 67 — Carl Boyer
• 1966The Tenderfoot — Jim Tevis
• 1965In Harm's Way — Ens. Jeremiah 'Jere' Torrey
• 12 O'Clock High — Cpl. Ross Lawrence
• The Tenderfoot — Jim Tevis
• 1964Those Calloways — Bucky Calloway
• 1963A Gathering of Eagles — Bill Fowler Jr (uncredited)
• 1963Hud — Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon
• The Greatest Show on Earth — Vic Hawkins
• 1962All Fall Down — Clinton Willart
• Combat! — Wilder
• The Nurses — Paul Marker
• The Virginian — James 'Mike Flynn' Cafferty, Rem Garvey, Walt Bradbury
• The Defenders — Roger Bailey Jr.
• The Wonderful World of Disney
• Thriller — Timothy Branner
• 1959Blue Denim — Arthur Bartley
• 1958The Missouri Traveler — Byron Turner
• 1957Night Passage — Joey Adams
• Wagon Train — Daniel Morgan Benedict III, Mark Miner
• 1956Good-bye, My Lady — Skeeter Jackson
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Hugo
• Climax! — Robbie Eunson, Tip Malone
• Jamie — Jamie McHummer
• 1953Shane — Joey Starrett
• 1952The Member of the Wedding — John Henry
• The Philco Television Playhouse

Appearances as themselves (4)

• The Oscars — Self
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self