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Tommy Rettig is a Actor American born on 10 december 1941 at New York City (USA)

Tommy Rettig

Tommy Rettig
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Birth name Thomas Noel Rettig
Nationality USA
Birth 10 december 1941 at New York City (USA)
Death 15 february 1996 (at 54 years) at Marina del Rey (USA)

Thomas Noel Rettig, known as Tommy Rettig (December 10, 1941 – February 15, 1996), was an American child actor, computer software engineer, and author. Rettig is remembered for portraying the character "Jeff Miller" in the first three seasons of CBS's Lassie television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs as Jeff's Collie. He also co-starred with another former child actor, Tony Dow, in the mid-1960s television teen soap opera Never Too Young and recorded the song by that title with the group The TR-4.

Biography

Cet enfant acteur connut son heure de gloire au début des années cinquante, dirigé notamment par Otto Preminger, Vincente Minnelli ou Delmer Daves. Après 1956, il tourna exclusivement pour la télévision et on le vit dans un grand nombre de séries, dont Lassie est sans doute la plus connue. Il abandonne le métier d'acteur à la fin des années 1960 et tente une reconversion difficile émaillée de quelques ennuis avec la justice pour détention de stupéfiants. Il s'est consacré ensuite à la programmation informatique jusqu'à sa disparition en février 1996.

Best films

River of No Return (1954)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Tommy Rettig (19 films)

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Actor

The Lost Empire, 1h23
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Actors Raven De La Croix, Blackie Dammett, Angus Scrimm, Angelique Pettyjohn, Robert Tessier, Kenneth Tobey
Roles Officer Robinson
Rating47% 2.3586852.3586852.3586852.3586852.358685
The film opens at a jewelry shop in Chinatown, which contains a statue with one glowing red eye. Three masked figures kill the store’s owner, then try to pry the eye free. The police arrive, and after a bloody fight, all of the intruders and all but one of the policemen are dead, with the lone survivor being seriously wounded.
The Last Wagon, 1h38
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig, Nick Adams, Stephanie Griffin
Roles Billy
Rating69% 3.493333.493333.493333.493333.49333
Sheriff Bull Harper (George Mathews) is taking "Comanche" Todd (Richard Widmark), a white man who has lived most of his life among the Indians, to be tried for the murder of Harper's three brothers. The pair join a wagon train led by Colonel Normand (Douglas Kennedy). Harper's brutal treatment of Todd causes friction with some members of the wagon train. When the sheriff beats a lad for giving Todd a pipe to smoke, Todd takes advantage of the distraction to kill his tormentor with a dropped axe.
The Cobweb
The Cobweb (1955)
, 2h14
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Mabel Albertson, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish
Roles Mark
Rating62% 3.146373.146373.146373.146373.14637
Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) is now in charge of a psychiatric facility, one run for many years by medical director Dr. Douglas Devanal (Charles Boyer).
At Gunpoint, 1h21
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan, Skip Homeier, Tommy Rettig, John Qualen
Roles Billy Wright
Rating62% 3.147493.147493.147493.147493.14749
Plainview is a peaceful town, all the better for bad man Alvin Dennis and his mean brother Bob to rob the bank there. They figure small-town sheriff Pete MacKay won't pose much of a problem to them.
The Egyptian, 2h19
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Edmund Purdom, John Carradine
Roles Thoth
Rating64% 3.247413.247413.247413.247413.24741
The Egyptian tells the story of Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), a struggling physician in 18th dynasty Egypt (14th Century BC.) who is thrown by chance into contact with the pharaoh Akhnaton (Michael Wilding). He rises to and falls from great prosperity, wanders the world, and becomes increasingly drawn towards a new religion spreading throughout Egypt. His companions throughout are his lover, a shy tavern maid named Merit (Jean Simmons), and his corrupt but likable servant, Kaptah (Peter Ustinov).
River of No Return, 1h31
Directed by Jean Negulesco, Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films, L'Or
Actors Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Tommy Rettig, Rory Calhoun, Murvyn Vye, Douglas Spencer
Roles Mark Calder
Rating65% 3.2996153.2996153.2996153.2996153.299615
Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focuses on taciturn widower Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum), who recently has been released from prison after serving time for killing a man while defending another one. He arrives in a tent city in search of his ten-year-old son Mark (Tommy Rettig), who was left in the care of dance hall singer Kay (Marilyn Monroe) during his absence. Matt promises Mark, a virtual stranger to him, the two will enjoy a life of hunting, fishing and farming on their homestead.
The Raid
The Raid (1954)
, 1h23
Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin USA
Genres War, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves
Roles Larry Bishop
Rating67% 3.3909853.3909853.3909853.3909853.390985
In 1864 a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburg, New York, not many miles from the Canadian border, escape. They head for Canada and plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks and burn buildings.
So Big
So Big (1953)
, 1h41
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Jane Wyman, Richard Beymer, Sterling Hayden, Steve Forrest, Nancy Olson, Elisabeth Fraser
Roles Dirk, age 8
Rating66% 3.3403453.3403453.3403453.3403453.340345
In the late 1890s, boarding school student Selina Peake learns of the death of her father, who has left her penniless as the result of bad business transactions. August Hempel, the father of her best friend Julie, secures her a teaching position in New Holland, a small Dutch farming community outside Chicago. There she rents a room in the home of Klaas Pool, who lives with his unhappy wife Maartje and intelligent but troubled adolescent son Roelf.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., 1h28
Directed by Stanley Kramer, Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tommy Rettig, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, George Chakiris, Peter Lind Hayes, Henry Kulky
Roles Bartholomew Collins
Rating66% 3.346093.346093.346093.346093.34609
Young Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig) lives with his widowed mother Heloise (Mary Healy). The blight of Bart's existence are the hated piano lessons he endures under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried). Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's influence, and gripes to plumber August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes), without result. While hammering at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a musical dream, much as did Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.
Paula
Paula (1952)
, 1h20
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Loretta Young, Kent Smith, Alexander Knox, Tommy Rettig, Will Wright, Will Wright
Roles David Larson
Rating65% 3.290953.290953.290953.290953.29095
Distraught after her second miscarriage and learning definitively she could never have children, Paula Rogers, while driving at night, accidentally injures a child. Confused and also expected to attend a function that honors her husband, Paula doesn't follow the child to the hospital as she should. She attempts to tell her husband about the incident but has trouble finding the right time.
Elopement
Elopement (1951)
, 1h22
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, Charles Bickford, William Lundigan, Reginald Gardiner, Evelyn Varden
Roles Daniel Reagan
Rating63% 3.1902753.1902753.1902753.1902753.190275
Jacqueline "Jake" Osborne is sent to college to follow in the footsteps of her successful father Howard, only to fall in love with a professor there and impulsively decide to elope.
The Strip
The Strip (1951)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig, Tommy Rettig, Tom Powers
Roles Artie Ardrey
Rating60% 3.047933.047933.047933.047933.04793
Stanley Maxton (Mickey Rooney) is a drummer in the rhythm section of a night club orchestra. He is in love with cigarette girl, Jane Tafford (Sally Forrest), but she is more interested in a mobster reputed to have influence in the movie industry.
Week-End with Father, 1h23
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Van Heflin, Patricia Neal, Tommy Rettig, Gigi Perreau, Jimmy Hunt, Virginia Field
Roles David "Shorty" Bowen
Rating60% 3.0486953.0486953.0486953.0486953.048695
Le « coup de foudre » réciproque d'un veuf et d'une veuve au départ d'une colonie de vacances dans laquelle ils ont placé leurs enfants. Ces derniers, confrontés à la perspective d'un hypothétique mariage, manifestent leur opposition tout en estimant davantage d'autres prétendants.