- Born
- Died
- Birth nameTheodore D Donaldson
- Nickname
- Pudge
- Ted Donaldson was born on August 20, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Le Lys de Brooklyn (1945), The Return of Rusty (1946) and Rusty Saves a Life (1949). He died on March 1, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- ParentsWilliam John DonaldsonJosephine Marion PlantMuriel Pollock
- Was working at a bookshop in the late 70s.
- Pudgy-faced, reddish-haired, semi-popular child star during the WWII era, on radio at the age of 4.
- A marvel at dialects for one of such a young age, he won the Critics Award in 1944 for Once Upon a Time (1944).
- Interviewed in "Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television" by Tom Goldrup and Jim Goldrup (McFarland, 2002).
- His father was singer-composer Will Donaldson (William John Donaldson). After his mother, Josephine Marion "Jo" (Plant), died when he was just months old, his dad married organist/composer Muriel Pollock.
- From my very early twenties I wanted to be the first male child actor to become a leading man.
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