![]() ![]() The show was filmed in June and early July 1956, and broadcast that October, at the start of the show's second season. "The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure". In April 1956, Kirk was cast as Joe Hardy for The Mickey Mouse Club serial Kirk's brother went on to become a dentist. The performance was seen by an agent from the Gertz agency, who signed Kirk and succeeded in casting him in an episode of TV Reader's Digest, "The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs", directed by William Beaudine. "It was five lines, it didn't pay anything, and nobody else showed up, so I got the part," recalled Kirk. Joe was not cast, losing out to Bobby Driscoll, but Tommy was, and he made his stage debut opposite Will Rogers Jr. In 1954, Kirk accompanied his elder brother Joe to an audition for a production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Looking for better job opportunities, they moved to Downey in Los Angeles County, California, when Kirk was 15 months old. His father, Louis, was a mechanic who worked for the highway department his mother, Lucy, was a legal secretary. Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky, one of four sons. He died at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada in September 2021, aged 79. ![]() Kirk opened a carpet cleaning business and lived a mostly ordinary life, occasionally appearing at fan conventions. He struggled with drug addiction and depression for several years, appearing in a series of low-budget films before leaving the acting business in the mid-1970s. Kirk's career with Disney ended when news of his homosexuality threatened to become public. He frequently appeared as a love interest for Annette Funicello or as part of a family with Kevin Corcoran as his younger brother and Fred MacMurray as his father. Thomas Lee Kirk (Decem– September 28, 2021) was an American actor, best known for his performances in films made by Walt Disney Studios such as Old Yeller, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, The Absent-Minded Professor, and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, as well as the beach-party films of the mid-1960s.
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