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He was wholesome, clean cut and quirky-things that easily won over Disney audiences. Quite on the opposite side, Kirk was in highly heterosexual all-American teenage romance beach films. A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.

Unfortunately, he went to a party where people were smoking marijuana.

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I remember Tommy Kirk from all those old Disney movies. Life for fresh-faced, slightly goofy Tommy Kirk seemed sunny in those s movies at Walt Disney Studios. Kirk quit acting by the early s, saying that he got sick of it and stopped. For a child star who struggled so much, Tommy Kirk is really forgotten today.

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Welcome to Tommy Hilfiger USA. Classic, American cool style since —delivering a modern twist on tradition, reinventing the fashion icons of prep, nautical, sport and rock-n-roll for today. Kirk said his teen years were a very unhappy time for him.

I love him as an actor and I remember as a kid having a huge crush on him in Swiss Family Robinson. With Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John. The book mainly seems to focus on the silly roles he was in and how overly sexual the males were in beach movies.

Tommy: Directed by Ken Russell. Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello. Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired. Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. They were growing aware.

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But as Kirk grew out of those kid roles in the early s, life started to drastically change. I wonder if it has to do with Disney still trying to keep appearances. This is heartbreaking. Teaching Kirk how to romance a woman in a film almost makes me wonder if it was a jab at him.

I know it, it really makes me sad. Not only was his career floundering, but once he accepted he was gay, he had no way to meet people or express himself. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.

He was always a sweet, gentle presence on film, without being annoyingly wholesome. Like most child stars, the transition from family movies to teen movies can be difficult. He now runs a carpet and upholstery cleaning business, according to IMDB.