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Theodore Matthew Michael Kuhn Jr. (born September 21, 1932) is an American former actor. He started his career as a child actor, active on-screen during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is most noted for playing Beau Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939).[1]

Mickey Kuhn
Kuhn in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Born	(1932-09-21) September 21, 1932 (age 90) Waukegan, Illinois
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1934–1956 (as actor)

He also appeared in Juarez (1939), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Red River (1948), and Broken Arrow (1950). He left the film industry in 1956, but made his final acting appearance on the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents that year.

Biography

Career as a child star

Born in Waukegan, Illinois of German descent to Mickey Snr. and Pearl Hicks, he gained fame as a child actor in the 1930s and appeared opposite such stars Conrad Nagel and Leslie Howard, amongst others.[2] His first fame came when he won the role auditioned for by 100 other child actors in playing Beau Wilkes (the son of Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland's characters Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton), in Gone with the Wind in 1939.

He went on to appear in Juarez (1939) opposite Bette Davis, as the adoptive son of John Wayne in Red River and then in Broken Arrow starring James Stewart.

Featuring in the film A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), this role would reunite him with Vivien Leigh twelve years after they first worked together in Gone with the Wind. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Kuhn played a sailor who directs Leigh's character Blanche to the correct streetcar which will take her to her sister's neighborhood at the beginning of the film. He is therefore given the distinction of being the only actor to share screen time with Vivien Leigh in each of her Academy Award winning performances.[3]

Navy career

In the Navy from 1951 until 1955, Kuhn worked as an aircraft electrician.[1]

Post-acting career

Kuhn left the film business in 1956 and worked for American Airlines (from 1965 to 1995)[1] and the Boston airport in administrative positions until his retirement. He now regularly visits film festivals dealing with his films.

Following Dame Olivia de Havilland's death on July 26, 2020, Kuhn, now aged 90, is the only surviving credited cast member[4] from Gone with the Wind.[5]

As of 2017, Kuhn was living in Naples, Florida and volunteering four hours per week at a local hospital.[6]

Awards

In 2005, Kuhn received a Golden Boot Award, an award given to acknowledge significant contributions to the Western genre.[7]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1934	Change of Heart	Adopted baby (film debut, uncredited)
1937	A Doctor's Diary	Boy in hospital
1939	King of the Underworld	Young Boy
	Juarez	Agustín de Iturbide y Green
	S.O.S. Tidal Wave	Buddy Shannon
	When Tomorrow Comes	Boy (uncredited)
	Bad Little Angel	Bobby Creighton - Age 5 (uncredited)
	Gone with the Wind	Beau Wilkes
1940	I Want a Divorce	David Holland, Jr.
	Slightly Tempted	Boy (uncredited)
1941	One Foot in Heaven	Boy (uncredited)
1944	Beneath Western Skies	Teddy (uncredited)
1945	Roughly Speaking	John
	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Boy at Christmas Tree Throw (uncredited)
	This Love of Ours	Youngster (uncredited)
	Dick Tracy	Junior
1946	Roaring Rangers	Larry Connor (uncredited)
	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	Young Walter
	The Searching Wind	Sam as a Boy
	The Return of Rusty	Marty Connors
	Three Little Girls in Blue	Farm boy
1947	High Conquest	Peter Oberwalder Jr.
	Magic Town	Hank Nickleby
1948	Red River	Young Matt
1949	Scene of the Crime	Ed Monigan, Jr.
1950	Broken Arrow	Bob Slade (uncredited)
1951	That's My Boy	Student (uncredited)
	A Streetcar Named Desire	A Sailor
	On the Loose	Bob Vance
1955	The Last Frontier	Luke
1956	Away All Boats	Seaman (final film)
	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Bellhop/Ellerbee

References

Bibliography

• Goldrup, Tom and Jim (2002). Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Film and Television. McFarland & Co. pp. 178–185. ISBN 1476613702.
• Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich: Michael Russell, p. 178.

External links

• Mickey Kuhn at IMDb

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[ru] Кун, Микки

Микки Кун (англ. Mickey Kuhn, урождённый Теодор Мэттью Майкл Кун мл. (англ. Theodore Matthew Michael Kuhn, Jr.), род. 21 сентября 1932 (1932-09-21)) — американский актёр. Родился в городе Уокиган, штат Иллинойс, в семье с немецкими корнями. На киноэкранах он начал появляться с 1934 года, будучи ещё младенцем. Наиболее известные свои роли Кун исполнил в 1939 году в фильмах «Хуарес» (1939) и «Унесённые ветром» (1939). Его карьера на киноэкранах продлилась до середины 1950-х, и за это время он появился почти в трёх десятках картин, среди которых «Дик Трейси» (1945), «Странная любовь Марты Айверс» (1946) и «Трамвай «Желание»» (1951). В 1951 году актёр поступил на службу в ВМФ США, где служил последующие четыре года. В 1957 году Кун снялся в трёх эпизодах сериала «Альфред Хичкок представляет», после чего завершил свою актёрскую карьеру. С 1965 по 1995 год он работал в компании «American Airlines». Актёр дважды был женат, став отцом двух детей от первого брака.

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