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
• Billy Chapin
• Sally Jane Bruce

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
• 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 - still alive
• 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
• Beulah Bondi- aa - 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!