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$1.4 Million

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Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk (born December 10, 1941) is a former American actor and later a businessman. He is best known for his performances in a number of highly popular movies made by Walt Disney Studios such as Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, as well as beach party movies of the mid 1960s. 
Full NameTommy Kirk
Net Worth$1.4 Million
Date Of BirthDecember 10, 1941
Place Of BirthLouisville, Kentucky, USA
Height5' 9" (1.75 m)
OccupationActor/businessman
ProfessionActor, Businessperson
NationalityAmerican
SpouseNever married
ParentsLucy Kirk, Louis Kirk
SiblingsJoe Kirk
NicknamesTommy Kirk, Kirk, Tommy
IMDBhttp://imdb.com/name/nm0456565
MoviesOld Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, The Absent-Minded Professor, Pajama Party, The Monkey's Uncle, Savage Sam, Babes in Toyland, Village of the Giants, Mars Needs Women, Son of Flubber, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, Bon Voyage!, Catalina Caper, ...
TV ShowsThe Mickey Mouse Club, The Hardy Boys (1956)
Star SignSagittarius
#Trademark
1Disney movies
#Quote
1I thought Jane Wyman was a hard, cold woman and I got to hate her by the time I was through with Bon Voyage! (1962). Of course, she didn't like me either, so I guess it came natural. I think she had some suspicion that I was gay and all I can say is that, if she didn't like me for that, she doesn't like a lot of people.
2[when asked about his contract termination with Walt Disney] Yeah, I picked somebody up. It was just one of those crazy things that I didn't know what I was doing; I used to swim in the public pool in downtown Burbank, and I met this teenager and one thing led to another and we had an affair. And then he talked ... he either told a friend or told his parents about me, because his parents went down to the studio one day and Disney was confronted with this. They didn't press sodomy charges, but that was the end of my contract. They did not renew me.
3After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke. I spent all my money on drugs to get out of the emotional pain I was in. I had no self-discipline or self-control and I almost died of a drug overdose a couple of times. It's a miracle that I'm still around. Finally, I said to myself, "to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself", and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.
4I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy. I knew I was gay since I was a little kid, but I had no outlet for my feelings and I felt that I could not confide in anyone because of the fear of being discovered to who I really was. It was very hard to meet people and, at that time, there was no place to go to socialize. It wasn't until the early Sixties that I began to hear of places where gays congregated... When I was about 17 or 18 years old, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I was born homosexual and I had to accept that. I didn't know what the consequences would be if I came out, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career and maybe my whole acting career... and I turned out to be right. Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired. Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with some guy, that was the end of Disney.
5[on why he quit acting] I got sick of it and I just stopped.
6In 1965, I'd signed a contract for 'The Sons of Katie Elder' with John Wayne, but a week before shooting I went to a Hollywood party that the vice squad busted because of marijuana. I was handcuffed and photos of me got in the papers with headlines like 'Ex-Disney Child Star Arrested for Pot!' So Wayne and the producers fired me.
7In the 1960s, all my social life was underground gay bars. It was my own life. I kept it separate from work, where I went on publicity dates with Annette Funicello or Roberta Shore.
8Even more than MGM, Disney [in the early 1960s] was the most conservative studio in town... They were growing aware. They weren't stupid. They could add two and two together, and I think they were beginning to suspect my homosexuality. I noticed people in certain quarters were getting less and less friendly. In 1963, Disney didn't renew my option and let me go. But Walt personally let me return to do the final Merlin Jones movie, 'The Monkey's Uncle,' because those were moneymakers for the studio.
#Fact
1Kirk was not fired from Disney for being gay. He admitted in a 1993 interview that it was for having sex with a 15-year-old boy when he was 21.
2Provided lead voice-over work with Sandra Dee in the animated Russian film The Snow Queen (1957) [The Snow Queen] at Universal. The film won the 1957 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award in the animated film category and first place in the animated group at the 1958 Cannews Film Festival.
3According to Thomas A. Stebick, who interviewed Tommy for an April 2016 Classic Images magazine article, Tommy, who loved horseback riding, loved animals from a very young age and had a quarter horse named Bell in California for about five years which the family kept at a nearby stable.
4There was talk of Tommy starring in "Rainbow to Oz" as a young Davy Crockett but the project never came to fruition.
5He, along with Tim Considine, Kevin Corcoran and David Stollery were named "Disney Legends" for their work in TV and film. joining the company of such stalwart contributors as Fred MacMurray, Fess Parker, Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills, Kurt Russell, John Mills and Ed Wynn.
6In 1976 he was asked to appear in a western entitled "My Name Is Legend" that filmed in Wichita, but the film was never finished.
7Was about to co-star in the John Wayne movie The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) when in 1964 he was busted at a Christmas Eve party using marijuana. As a result, he was replaced by Michael Anderson Jr..
8Father Louis was a mechanic and mother Doris a legal secretary. He had three brothers: Joe, Andy and John.
9Runs a carpet/upholstery cleaning business. [2000]
10In July 1996, he was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina along with Morgan Woodward, Tony Young, Patricia Blair, Roberta Shore, Gregory Walcott, Gene Evans, Justin Tubb, Adrian Booth, Robert F. Hoy, Neil Summers and Dale Berry.
11Played Kevin Corcoran's brother in five different films: Old Yeller (1957), The Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Bon Voyage! (1962) and Savage Sam (1963).

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
'It's Alive!'1969TV MovieWayne Thomas
Mars Needs Women1967TV MovieDop - Martian Fellow #1 / Mr. Fast - Seattle Sun Reporter
Psycho à Go-Go1967Sgt. Cross
Catalina Caper1967Don Pringle
Track of Thunder1967Bobby Goodwin
It's a Bikini World1967Mike Samson / Herbert Samson
Unkissed Bride1966Ted
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini1966Chuck Phillips
The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot1965TV ShortMalcolm Andrews
Village of the Giants1965Mike
The Monkey's Uncle1965Merlin Jones
Pajama Party1964Go Go
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1964TV SeriesThief's Assistant
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones1964Merlin Jones
Mr. Novak1963TV SeriesTod Seaton
Savage Sam1963Travis Coates
Son of Flubber1963Biff Hawk
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color1961-1962TV SeriesTommy Carpenter / Danny Grant
Bon Voyage!1962Elliott Willard
Moon Pilot1962Walter Talbot
Babes in Toyland1961Grumio
Angel1961TV Series
The Absent Minded Professor1961Biff Hawk
Swiss Family Robinson1960Ernst
Bachelor Father1959TV SeriesKip Davis
The Millionaire1959TV SeriesTom Morrison
Playhouse 901959TV SeriesJack
The Shaggy Dog1959Wilby Daniels
Matinee Theatre1956-1958TV SeriesJohn Tucker / Walter
Old Yeller1957Travis Coates
The Californians1957TV SeriesBilly Kilgore
The O. Henry Playhouse1957TV Series
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm1957TV SeriesJoe Hardy
The Snow Queen1957Kay (English version, voice)
The Peacemaker1956Tommy (uncredited)
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure1956TV SeriesJoe Hardy
The Loretta Young Show1956TV SeriesMark Seaton / Alvin Simms
Gunsmoke1956TV SeriesJerry Pitcher
Down Liberty Road1956ShortJimmy Rollins
Crossroads1956TV Series
Big Town1956TV Series
Frontier1956TV SeriesMike Austin
Lux Video Theatre1956TV SeriesBuzz
TV Reader's Digest1955TV Series
The Education of a Vampire2001Albert Kornfield
Club Dead2000VideoPrivate Detective
Billy Frankenstein1998Blind Monk
Little Miss Magic1998Mr. Kenner
Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold1995Passenger
Streets of Death1988VideoFrank Phillips
My Name Is Legend1976
The Streets of San Francisco1973TV SeriesRoland Claridge
Ride the Hot Wind1971Captain Gregory Shank (as Tom Kirk)

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Unkissed Bride1966performer: "Mother Goose à Go-Go"
Pajama Party1964performer: "There Has to Be a Reason"
Swiss Family Robinson1960performer: "O Christmas Tree" - uncredited

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics2008TV Movie documentary grateful thanks
'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic2002Video documentary short special thanks
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making2002Video documentary special thanks
Full Tilt Boogie1997Documentary special thanks - as Tommy 'Santa Monica' Kirk

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics2008TV Movie documentaryHimself - Interviewee
The Hardy Boys Unmasked2006Video shortHimself
Working with Walt2006Video shortHimself
'Old Yeller': Remembering a Classic2002Video documentary shortHimself
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making2002Video documentaryHimself
Television: The First Fifty Years1999Video documentaryHimself / Interviewee / Joe Hardy
Best Doggone Dog in the West: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Old Yeller'1997Video documentary shortHimself
Here's Hollywood1962TV SeriesHimself
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color1957-1961TV SeriesHimself
Disneyland '591959TV Movie documentaryHimself
The Mickey Mouse Club1957TV SeriesHimself

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