While performing in Paris in 1961 he defected to the West.
Actor Scrappy, plucky-looking Kentucky-born Tommy Kirk, who was born on December 10, 1941, became synonymous with everything clean and fun that Disney Entertainment prescribed to in the late 1950s and very early 1960s.
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He then performed internationally, becoming an Austrian citizen in 1982.
Another of the images show the 23-year-old gazing at the camera, with his Olympic ring on his finger.