Alternate Names: Claude Jarman Jr. | Claude Jarman, Jr.
Birthday: 27.09.1934
With no intentions of becoming a screen actor at the time, 12-year-old Claude Jarman Jr. was discovered during an MGM nationwide talent search for an upcoming film The Yearling (1946) and won the coveted role of Jody Baxter in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ classic story. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Claude was the son of a railroad accountant. Sad to say his film success would not last all that long. He seemed to lack the requisite good looks and natural boyish appeal necessary to forge on ahead. The critics raved over Claude’s tremendously moving debut and the boy was awarded a miniature
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Rio Grande (1950) ... Trooper Jefferson »Jeff« Yorke