Teddy Infuhr (November 9, 1936 â€" May 12, 2007), born Theodore Edward
Infuhr, was an American child actor.Missouri-born child actor Teddy
Infuhr, youngest of four, moved with his family to Los Angeles when he
was three and was initially prodded into acting by his mother. A young
student at the Rainbow Studios, he was spotted by a talent agent and
booked the very first film he went out on with The Tuttles of Tahiti
(1942) at the age of five. Throughout the rest of the 1940s he would
find steady roles as mean-spirited tykes, trouble-makers or bullying
types, never settling down to one specific studio.A good portion of
his work was noticeable yet he also appeared unbilled much of the
time. Unable to move into the major child star leagues, he was cast in
some of the biggest pictures Hollywood had to offer including A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn, Spellbound and The Best Years of Our Lives. In the
later film, Infuhr played a drugstore brat chided by Dana Andrews'
character, Fred Derry. One of his more oddball roles included the role
of Gale Sondergaard's fly-catching nephew in The Spider Woman.Ted
found a recurring role in the "Rusty" canine adventure series,
beginning with The Return of Rusty and finishing with Rusty's
Birthday. He was also one of the bucolic brood in the Ma and Pa Kettle
series that was introduced with the classic The Egg and I. He appeared
more times in that series than any other of the regular child stars.
After the war, he had larger parts in The Boy with Green Hair,
Fighting Fools, West of El Dorado and Blondie's Hero and appeared with
Gene Autry a few times.
Infuhr, was an American child actor.Missouri-born child actor Teddy
Infuhr, youngest of four, moved with his family to Los Angeles when he
was three and was initially prodded into acting by his mother. A young
student at the Rainbow Studios, he was spotted by a talent agent and
booked the very first film he went out on with The Tuttles of Tahiti
(1942) at the age of five. Throughout the rest of the 1940s he would
find steady roles as mean-spirited tykes, trouble-makers or bullying
types, never settling down to one specific studio.A good portion of
his work was noticeable yet he also appeared unbilled much of the
time. Unable to move into the major child star leagues, he was cast in
some of the biggest pictures Hollywood had to offer including A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn, Spellbound and The Best Years of Our Lives. In the
later film, Infuhr played a drugstore brat chided by Dana Andrews'
character, Fred Derry. One of his more oddball roles included the role
of Gale Sondergaard's fly-catching nephew in The Spider Woman.Ted
found a recurring role in the "Rusty" canine adventure series,
beginning with The Return of Rusty and finishing with Rusty's
Birthday. He was also one of the bucolic brood in the Ma and Pa Kettle
series that was introduced with the classic The Egg and I. He appeared
more times in that series than any other of the regular child stars.
After the war, he had larger parts in The Boy with Green Hair,
Fighting Fools, West of El Dorado and Blondie's Hero and appeared with
Gene Autry a few times.
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