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Tommy Kirk, Young Star of ‘Old Yeller,’ Is Dead at 79
Tommy Kirk, who was a busy star in the Disney universe as a child and young man, appearing in “Old Yeller,” “The Shaggy Dog,” “Swiss Family Robinson” and other movies in the late 1950s and early ’60s, but whose career was derailed when his homosexuality became too widely known and when drugs and alcohol got the better of him, died on Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 79.