Biographies: Ted Donaldson - Actor

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A former American child actor, born on August 20, 1933, in New York City, New York, USA. His father was singer-composer Will Donaldson, and his stepmother was radio organist and composer Muriel Pollock. He went to the Professional Children's School in New York City, and he wanted to be the first male child actor to become a leading man. At the age of 4, he began his radio career as a moderately well-known child star of the WWII era. At the age of 8, he appeared on a Broadway stage production, and he performed in the 1943 drama Sons and Soldiers with Gregory Peck. He is known for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Return of Rusty (1946), and Rusty Saves a Life (1949). He received the Critics' Award in 1944 for his role in Once Upon a Time (1944). He retired in 1958 and was working in a bookshop in the late 1970s.

• 6 December 2022
• Salma El-Sharkawy