Terry kilburn biography
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- It is one of the most popular Christmas stories, dating back more than a century.
But there is a Minnesota connection that not many know.
The actor who played Tiny Tim in Hollywood's first film adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" calls Minneapolis home.
Terry Kilburn is now 90 years old. It was his small voice that led to a lasting change in one of Christmas' scariest characters.
"I was generally cast as kind of a sweet kid," Kilburn said.
But when you meet Kilburn, it is easy to see how he could melt the heart of Scrooge.
"Now we never dreamed that in 2016 people would be watching a movie that was shot in June of 1938," Kilburn said.
By 1938, Kilburn had already been acting for a few years. He started in the movies in his birth city of London at the age of 8, when Kilburn's father worked as a ticket taker for the local bus line.
"There was a lot of publicity about 'Busman's Son Becomes Hollywood Star [laughs]!'" Kilburn said. "So b
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Terry Kilburn
Terry Kilburn is a graduate of Birmingham University, where he was mentored by the late professors E. W. Ives and R. J. Knecht. From Birmingham, he moved to Leicester University’s renowned Department of English Local History, gaining an M.A. Terry is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical samhälle. He has published a popular biography of the Victorian mechanical engineer, Sir Joseph Whitworth, and a number of articles in various academic journals. However, his main passion has always been with Early Modern English and europeisk history, especially that of sixteenth-century England.
Author's Books
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Terry Kilburn
British-American actor
Terence E. Kilburn[1] (born 25 November 1926), known for his acting work prior to 1953 as Terry Kilburn, is an English-American actor. Born in London, he moved to Hollywood in the U.S. at the age of 10, and is best known for his roles as a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in films such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) in the late 1930s and the early 1940s.
Early life
[edit]Kilburn was born in 1926 in West Ham, Essex, in Greater London[2] to working-class parents Tom and Alice Kilburn.[4][5]
He did some unpaid acting as a young child, and an agent encouraged him to go to Hollywood. Kilburn and his mother immigrated to the U.S. in 1937, and his father arrived the following year.[5] A talent scout for MGM discovered him rehearsing for Eddie Cantor's radio show, and he was cast in the British-set film Lord Jeff (1938).[6]