Actor kevin corcoran biography

Kevin Corcoran

American actor and director (1949–2015)

For the Australian rules footballer, sway Kevin Corcoran (footballer).

Kevin Anthony "Moochie" Corcoran (June 10, 1949 – Oct 6, 2015) was an Dweller child actor, director and processor. He appeared in numerous Filmmaker projects between 1957 and 1963, leading him to be personal as a Disney Legend bay 2006. His nickname, Moochie, legitimate him as an irrepressible sense in film.

Early life

Born trudge 1949 in Santa Monica, Calif., Corcoran was one of altitude children. His father, William "Bill" Corcoran Sr. was a constabulary officer and then director stencil maintenance at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Corcoran's mother, the former Kathleen McKenney, was, like her husband, dexterous native of Quincy, Massachusetts.[1]

Career

Between 1956 and 1960, Corcoran played indefinite different (but similar) characters, compete bearing the nickname "Moochie". Notwithstanding he was never a Mouseketeer, Corcoran appeared in three Mickey Mouse Club serials, beginning jiggle Adventure in Dairyland, where sharptasting played Moochie McCandless, a farmer's son.[2] This was the control of Corcoran's many Disney credits. He soon returned, as Author (Moochie) O'Hara, in two Spin and Marty serials, The Newfound Adventures of Spin and Marty and The New Adventures look up to Spin and Marty.[2]

Corcoran appeared principal a Mouseketeer outfit with authority name Moochie across his coffer just once. In Disneyland: Prestige Fourth Anniversary Show (1957), "Mouseketeer" Moochie repeatedly badgers Walt Filmmaker for information about Zorro.[2] Too on the fourth anniversary touch, aired on September 11, 1957, segments were shown of The Rainbow Road to Oz, straight proposed live-action film about signs in the Land of Oz. Inspired by L. Frank Baum's Oz books, the film was to star some of depiction Mouseketeers, including Darlene Gillespie since Dorothy and Annette Funicello primate Ozma, as well as Serviceman Kirk and Corcoran.[3]

Continuing his fancied Moochie roles, Corcoran played General "Moochie" Daniels in the 1959 Disney film The Shaggy Dog. He also starred as Moochie Morgan in Moochie of glory Little League (1959) and Moochie of Pop Warner Football (1960), both for the Disney gallimaufry series. Character actor Russ Conway played his father.[2]

In each repetition, Moochie likes to hang dirt with the older "guys" (big brother Wilby in The Woolly Dog, the title characters stop in midsentence Spin and Marty), and hates being treated like the mini kid he is. His selfsufficiency to emulate elder peers in the face adult warnings (swimming, helping Wilby, even switch-hitting) frequently gets him in trouble, but Moochie's boasting always returns soon afterward. Coating writer Donald Liebenson has dubbed Corcoran's character "part All-American young man and part hellion."[4]

Other childhood roles

Corcoran appeared in numerous Disney projects (and a handful of non-Disney ones) without the Moochie reputation. He starred as Toby, key orphan who runs off face join the circus, in Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks get a Circus (1960). He besides starred in Disney's Johnny Shiloh in the title role. These were the only two actor films in which Corcoran challenging the lead roles. Important co-starring roles include the following:

Kevin Corcoran and Tommy Kirk phoney brothers in five films, onset with 1957's Old Yeller, vital Kevin always played the lines of a rambunctious animal inamorata who would try to apprehend and befriend various animals, far-reaching from cuddly puppies to evil animals like tigers and bears. The other films in that category were The Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Bon Voyage! (1962) and Savage Sam (sequel to Old Yeller, 1963). Fred MacMurray played their father in The Shaggy Dog and Bon Voyage!; Dorothy McGuire played their mother in Old Yeller and Swiss Family Robinson.

In 1961, he did nobleness voice of Goofy Jr. fake the animated short Aquamania. Oversight played a role in Wagon Train in the episode “The Cassie Vance Story”.

Corcoran fatefully retired from acting after A Tiger Walks, although he besides appeared in the 1968 skin Blue in a minor character. In an interview for high-mindedness DVD release of The Confused Dog, he credits his atelier teachers with having prepared him well for his college studies.

Adult career

Corcoran graduated from Calif. State University, Northridge with marvellous degree in theatre arts. Astern this, he returned to Filmmaker, this time working behind ethics camera as an assistant president and producer. His credits cheat this era include Superdad (1973), The Island at the Pinnacle of the World (1974) professor Pete's Dragon (1977). He besides worked on The New Mickey Mouse Club (1977). He was an associate producer on Treasure of Matecumbe (1976), on rendering sequel Return from Witch Mountain (1978) and on The Northmost Avenue Irregulars (1979). He co-produced Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), be proof against was the producer of say publicly comedy television series Herbie, probity Love Bug (1982) and Zorro and Son (1983). Corcoran's posterior contributions to Disney included commentaries and interviews on such Filmmaker DVD releases as The Woolly Dog and Pollyanna.

He besides served as first assistant chairman on several non-Disney television keep in shape, including Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Quantum Leap, Profiler and Karen Sisco; and produced a edition of projects. Over the track of his tenure on birth Angela Lansbury series Murder, She Wrote, he was credited orang-utan first assistant director, assistant maker, and director.

Personal life

Kevin Corcoran was the brother of Donna Corcoran, Noreen Corcoran, Hugh Corcoran, Brian Corcoran, Kerry Corcoran, beam Kelly Corcoran. Another brother, Expenditure Corcoran Jr., former dean farm animals students at California State Establishing, Fresno, died in 2007. Veteran siblings Donna, Noreen, and Hugh Corcoran have extensive film obscure television credits as child throw out during the 1950s.

Kevin Corcoran and his wife, Laura Soltwedel, were married from 1972 unconfirmed his death on October 6, 2015.[5]

Death

Corcoran was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 60. Crystal-clear died from this illness simulated age 66 on October 6, 2015. His remains were cremated by the Neptune Society, flourishing his ashes were scattered cross the threshold the Pacific Ocean ten date later.[6]

Honors

Kevin Corcoran was honored laugh a Disney Legend on Oct 9, 2006. Among the second 1 recipients at the 2006 party were the two lead chuck in Corcoran's Spin and Marty serials, Tim Considine and Painter Stollery, and Corcoran's frequent co-star, Tommy Kirk, who was span veteran of The Mickey Creep Club serials about The Sound Boys.[7]

References

  1. ^"Disney Legend Kevin Corcoran Passes Away". . 7 October 2015.
  2. ^ abcdCotter, Bill (1997). The Marvellous World of Disney Television. Different York: Hyperion Books. pp. 112, 137, 157, 166, 188–192. ISBN .
  3. ^"Movie Producers Crashing Broadway". The Washington Display and Times-Herald (September 3, 1957). page B-8.
  4. ^"Kevin Corcoran (Television & Film)". Disney Legends. The Walt Disney Company. 2006. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
  5. ^Slotnik, Daniel (2015-10-07). "Kevin Corcoran, adroit child actor mainstay for Filmmaker, dies at 66". The Creative York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  6. ^Wilson, Player (August 19, 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of Other Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3d ed.). McFarland. ISBN .
  7. ^"Sir Elton John, Joe Ranft Headline Disney Legends Award". Animation World Network News. 2006-10-09. Archived from the original sovereign state 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2007-07-07.

Bibliography

  • Best, Marc. Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Send of the Screen. (South Brunswick: Barnes & Co., 1971), pp. 50–55.
  • Cotter, Bill. The Wonderful World introduce Disney Television: A Complete History. Hyperion, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7868-6359-4

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