User:Oliver Renye
I am German and born in 1965. I presently live in Southwest of Germany, in a little parish, close to the French-German border to Alsace, France.
Although English is not my native language I understand it good enough to read and write in this language. Nevertheless, I work with comprehensive online dictionaries such as http://dict.leo.org/. However, my principle weakness always was (and still is) especially the English punctuation. Thus, in this respect, I would never object to be corrected, wherever appropriately necessary.
I am creator and admin of http://bobbydriscoll.net/, a Tribute website for deceased onetime child star Bobby Driscoll (1937-1968). I am also the major author of Driscoll’s Wikipedia article, as well as the articles on Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce (both "The Night Of The Hunter", 1955), which both I extended from standard stubs up to the current (November 2008) versions.
Since the start of my researches for Bobby Driscoll in late 2006, I developed a specific interest in child actors/actresses’ and their difficult relations/understandings to their stardom and their post-screen (adult) lives in retrospect to their "once-being-someone".
I am not professionally involved in or associated with the film-, or theatre business nor in journalism in any way. Yet, I aquired myself good basic skills in screenplay and essay/article writing.
Articles, which I already contributed (imported from Wikipedia):
- Bobby Driscoll - fca - deceased
- Billy Chapin - fca - still alive
- Sally Jane Bruce - fca - still alive
On the long term, partially based on my articles on Bobby Driscoll, Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce and/or of which I have got good biographical material (printed biographies and/or comprehensive interviews), my further plans are articles on:
The following lists are not final.
Actors:
(aa=adult actor, fca=former child actor)
- Robert Newton - aa - deceased
- Burl Ives - aa - deceased
- Beulah Bondi- aa - deceased
- Rusty Hamer - fca - deceased
- Butch Patrick - fca - still alive
- Barret Oliver- fca - still alive
- Johnny Crawford - fca/aa - still alive
- Tommy Rettig - fca - deceased
- Charles Herbert - fca - still alive
- Macaulay Culkin - fca/aa - still alive
- Ricky Schroder - fca/aa - still alive
- Dean Stockwell - fca/aa - still alive
- Russ Tambly - fca/aa - still alive
- Mickey Rooney - fca/aa - still alive
- Jackie Coogan - fca/aa - deceased
- Paul Petersen - fca - deceased
- Jack Wild - fca - deceased
- Barry Williams - fca - still alive
Actresses:
(aa=adult actor, fca=former child actor)
- Luana Patten - fca/aa - deceased (presently in work)
- Margaret Kerry - fca/aa - still alive
- Kathryn Beaumont - fca - still alive
- Drew Barrymore - fca/aa - still alive
- Linda Blair - fca/aa - still alive
- Shirley Temple - fca - still alive
- Sandy Desher - fca - still alive
- Heather O'Rourke - fca - deceased
(most of the former child actors had typical "post-fame" problems, partially resulting in heavy addictions or even in premature deaths.)
Directors/Producers:
- Walt Disney - deceased (as a stub already existent)
- Andy Warhol - deceased (as a stub already existent)
- Charles Laughton - deceased
- Piero Heliczer - deceased
Artists:
- Wallace Berman - deceased
- George Herms - still alive
- Robert Duncan - still alive
- Diane DiPrima - still alive
Movies:
- Song Of The South, 1946
- and all of Bobby Driscoll's major movies, he performed/appeared in
- The Exorcist, 1973
- The Poltergeist trilogy, 1982-88
- The Night Of The Hunter, 1955
TV-series:
- The Munsters, 1964 - (as a stub already existent)
- Addams Family, 1964-66
- The Partridge Family, 1970-74
- The Brady Bunch, 1969-74
Special subjects/topics:
- Andy Warhol's "The Factory"
- The Beat Generation
- Semina Culture (Wallace Berman's 1960s Los Angeles art circle)
- The major cast (Scott Baio, Jody Foster, Florence Dugger, John Cassisi and Martin Lev (deceased) of Sir Allan Parker's Bugsy Malone, 1973 (basing upon a 50 minutes documantary "Bugsy Malone - After They Were Famous", uploaded in five parts at Youtube)
- The major cast of Walt Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club, 1955-59
Any contribution of verifiable knowledge or biographical material is welcome and appriciated!