Tommy Rettig...

Actor Tommy Rettig of TV`s "Lassie" fame...He also had a long list of 1950`s movie credits where he performed with major film stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum...He was discovered by a talent scout while living in a New York apartment with his family...He is amongst all the other child actors who had difficulty adjusting to a normal lifestyle after being dumped and thrown aside by the movie industry after he became too old for child parts...Tommy`s was also, a rather tragic story...He also got into trouble with the law on account of drugs, etc, after leaving the spotlight of the movie industry...He was addicted to junk food, as well, which led to his untimely death in 1996...However, he did manage to become an award winning computer software programer, later in his life...

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