DISNEY's Old Yeller star Tommy Kirk is dead at 79. The late actor's neighbor found his body in his Las Vegas home. Law enforcement told TMZ on Wednesday Tommy's neighbor found him dead inside of his home around 8 PM on Tuesday.
No foul play is suspected at this time. Tommy was best known for playing the child role of Travis Coates in the 1957 Disney classic film Old Yeller.
He starred opposite Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker and Kevin Corcoran in the Disney movie. Old Yeller tells the story of a teenage boy, played by Tommy, who grows to love a stray dog as he helps his mother and younger brother run their Texas home whole their father is out of town on a cattle drive.
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