No man is a Treasure Island

One of my favorite movies is Walt Disney's "Treasure Island" starring Robert Newton, as Long John Silver and child-star, Bobby Driscoll, as Jim Hawkins (1950).
What a great pirate Robert Newton played! He was the best.
Bobby Driscoll did a good job too. His young Jim Hawkins character had the right amount of fear, excitement, and courage to be believable.
So, why am I writing about this? Well, I'll tell ya. It's because I stumbled across a brief bio of Bobby Driscoll this morning that I want to share. Here it is:
The story of Bobby Driscoll is one of the saddest incidents in Hollywood history. Driscoll had quite a bit of prior experience as a child actor, winning a special Academy Award for juvenile acting a year before "Treasure Island" was released. He went on to provide the voice of Peter Pan in the Disney animated movie of the same name. But after that his acting career was practically over. Although married with three children, in the 1960's he became involved with heavy drugs and soon disappeared from site. His mother eventually persuaded Disney to launch an investigation into his whereabouts. The investigation determined that the body of an unidentified homeless man, found a year earlier in an abandoned New York City tenement and buried in a mass grave on the Hart Island Potter's Field, was that of Bobby Driscoll. He had once been quoted as saying, "They carried me on a satin pillow, then dumped me in the garbage," and that truly turned out to be the case.
Ain't that a shame.