- 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 A Tree Grows in 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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