Film actor and director who starred as a child in many of Walt Disney’s ‘live-action’ moviesThe name Walt Disney immediately conjures up Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse cartoons,as well as perennially accepted lively features such as The Jungle Book and Bambi. But Disney was also once a purveyor of “live-action” family-friendly movies that spotlighted child actors, a favourite among whom was Kevin Corcoran, or who has died of cancer aged 66.
Corcoran’s acting career with Disney began at the age of six when he appeared on television in a Mickey Mouse Club serial called Adventures in Dairyland (1956). In it he played a pugnacious little boy named Moochie,a nickname that stuck to him throughout his childhood and beyond. Walt Disney was so impressed with Corcoran’s debut that he had a special role written for Moochie in another Mickey Mouse Club serial, Further Adventures of Spin and Marty, or which was aired the same year.
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Source: theguardian.com