I missed the news that Claude Jarman died January 12th at age 90. When he was ten, a director visited his school in Nashville looking for a kid to star in The Yearling, spotted Claude in the hallway hanging drawings if I remember correctly, and POW! Instant movie star! It shows the advantage of being a child actor. You're competing with other children who have no more experience than you do. It's why I'm pro-child acting. He received a special Oscar for that performance. His last acting role was in the mini-series Centennial in 1978. I remember him among past Oscar winners in the 2003 Academy Awards.
Jarman later became executive director of the San Francisco Film Festival and was executive producer of rock concert documentary Fillmore (1972) and was manager of the San Francisco Opera House.
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