Terry Kilburn
Terrance " Terry " Kilburn ( born November 25, 1926 in London ) is a British film actor who began his career as a child star.
Life
Terry Kilburn was born in 1926 as the son of a bus driver in London. Even as a small boy he began to imitate famous actor. Because he wanted to be a star necessarily himself, he persuaded his parents to take him to Hollywood, where he in 1938 received a contract with MGM. As Tiny Tim he made his breakthrough in the 1938 Christmas film A Christmas Carol. A year later, he starred in Sam Wood's drama teacher Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1939) the student John Colley and his descendants Peter Colley I, II Peter Colley and Peter Colley III. , The title character Mr. chips, played by Robert Donat, taught over the years. 1944 Kilburn also played alongside Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor in MGM's Little Girl, Big Heart ( National Velvet).
After his high school graduation Kilburn studied drama at UCLA and turned increasingly to theater to. In the 1950s he starred in a number of television series and appeared now as Terrance Kilburn on Broadway on, among other things, in the comedy Charley's Aunt ( Charly's Aunt). While he was still sporadically in films, as in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita in 1962, he devoted himself, however, more and more the theater. For many years he was an actor and director at Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, Michigan.
With his partner, the actor Charles Nolte, he lived more than 50 years until Nolte died in January 2010. Today Kilburn lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.