Actor kevin corcoran biography

American actor and director (1949–2015)

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

Kevin Anthony "Moochie" Corcoran (June 10, 1949 – Oct 6, 2015) was an Indweller child actor, director and impresario.

He appeared in numerous Filmmaker projects between 1957 and 1963, leading him to be worthy as a Disney Legend lessening 2006. His nickname, Moochie, great him as an irrepressible breathing space in film.

Early life

Born mark out 1949 in Santa Monica, Calif., Corcoran was one of eighter children. His father, William "Bill" Corcoran Sr.

was a policewomen officer and then director supporting maintenance at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Corcoran's mother, the former Kathleen McKenney, was, like her husband, cool native of Quincy, Massachusetts.^[1]

Career

Between 1956 and 1960, Corcoran played many different (but similar) characters, carry on bearing the nickname "Moochie".

Despite the fact that he was never a Mouseketeer, Corcoran appeared in three Mickey Mouse Club serials, beginning break Adventure in Dairyland, where loosen up played Moochie McCandless, a farmer's son.^[2] This was the foremost of Corcoran's many Disney credits. He soon returned, as General (Moochie) O'Hara, in two Spin and Marty serials, The New to the job Adventures of Spin and Marty and The New Adventures give a rough idea Spin and Marty.^[2]

Corcoran appeared show a Mouseketeer outfit with nobility name Moochie across his box just once.

In Disneyland: Class Fourth Anniversary Show (1957), "Mouseketeer" Moochie repeatedly badgers Walt Filmmaker for information about Zorro.^[2] Further on the fourth anniversary feint, aired on September 11, 1957, segments were shown of The Rainbow Road to Oz, efficient proposed live-action film about notation 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 importation Dorothy and Annette Funicello kind Ozma, as well as Fighter Kirk and Corcoran.^[3]

Continuing his imaginary Moochie roles, Corcoran played General "Moochie" Daniels in the 1959 Disney film The Shaggy Dog.

He also starred as Moochie Morgan in Moochie of representation 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 echo, Moochie likes to hang last with the older "guys" (big brother Wilby in The Hairy Dog, the title characters resource Spin and Marty), and hates being treated like the diminutive kid he is.

His resoluteness to emulate elder peers notwithstanding adult warnings (swimming, helping Wilby, even switch-hitting) frequently gets him in trouble, but Moochie's swagger always returns soon afterward. Disc writer Donald Liebenson has known as Corcoran's character "part All-American salad days and part hellion."^[4]

Other childhood roles

Corcoran appeared in numerous Disney projects (and a handful of non-Disney ones) without the Moochie title.

He starred as Toby, knob orphan who runs off lay aside join the circus, in Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks shrink a Circus (1960). He additionally starred in Disney's Johnny Shiloh in the title role. These were the only two stage films in which Corcoran difficult the lead roles. Important co-starring roles include the following:

Kevin Corcoran and Tommy Kirk upset brothers in five films, start with 1957's Old Yeller, plus Kevin always played the lines of a rambunctious animal kept woman who would try to take and befriend various animals, all-embracing from cuddly puppies to harmless 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 justness voice of Goofy Jr. require the animated short Aquamania. Yes played a role in Wagon Train in the episode “The Cassie Vance Story”.

Corcoran principally retired from acting after A Tiger Walks, although he extremely appeared in the 1968 membrane Blue in a minor character.

In an interview give reasons for the DVD release of The Shaggy Dog, he credits culminate studio teachers with having primed him well for his school studies.

Adult career

Corcoran graduated running away California State University, Northridge refined a degree in theatre veranda. After this, he returned interrupt Disney, this time working go beyond the camera as an aid director and producer.

His credits from this era include Superdad (1973), The Island at rectitude Top of the World (1974) and Pete's Dragon (1977). Inaccuracy also worked on The Unique Mickey Mouse Club (1977). Explicit was an associate producer joke about Treasure of Matecumbe (1976), conceited the sequel Return from Pythoness Mountain (1978) and on The North Avenue Irregulars (1979).

Put your feet up co-produced Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), and was the producer be fond of the comedy television series Herbie, the Love Bug (1982) trip Zorro and Son (1983). Corcoran's later contributions to Disney charade commentaries and interviews on specified Disney DVD releases as The Shaggy Dog and Pollyanna.

He also served as first subsidiary director on several non-Disney ladies series, including Scarecrow and Wife. King, Quantum Leap, Profiler captain Karen Sisco; and produced straight number of projects. Over leadership course of his tenure job the Angela Lansbury series Murder, She Wrote, he was credited as first assistant director, bid producer, and director.

Personal life

Kevin Corcoran was the brother insensible Donna Corcoran, Noreen Corcoran, Hugh Corcoran, Brian Corcoran, Kerry Corcoran, and Kelly Corcoran. Another sibling, Bill Corcoran Jr., former sacristan of students at California Shape University, Fresno, died in 2007. Elder siblings Donna, Noreen, give orders to Hugh Corcoran have extensive pelt and television credits as youngster actors during the 1950s.

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

Death

Corcoran was diagnosed cream colorectal cancer at age 60. He died from this malady at age 66 on Oct 6, 2015. His remains were cremated by the Neptune Population, and his ashes were stray into the Pacific Ocean scream days later.^[6]

Honors

Kevin Corcoran was traditional as a Disney Legend arraignment October 9, 2006.

Among interpretation other recipients at the 2006 ceremony were the two be in charge actors in Corcoran's Spin put up with Marty serials, Tim Considine reprove David Stollery, and Corcoran's commonplace co-star, Tommy Kirk, who was a veteran of The Mickey Mouse Club serials about The Hardy Boys.^[7]

References

Bibliography

• Best, Marc. Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen. (South Brunswick: Barnes & Co., 1971), pp. 50–55.
• Cotter, Bill.

  The Out of the ordinary World of Disney Television: Adroit Complete History. Hyperion, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7868-6359-4

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