Bobby Personified

People's Memories of Bobby

Russ Tamblyn

Friend

“Bobby Driscoll had a very rough childhood. I know that his father used to whack him around a lot, when he was very young. His parents used to lock him in the closet all night. He’d have to sit there in the dark.”

Isabelle Driscoll (Bobby’s mother)

Family

"Our minister had a theory, he said later that Bobby just didn't want to be a 'good little boy' anymore. He'd been too good. He wanted to be just the reverse. Maybe that was it."

Isabelle Driscoll (Bobby’s mother)

Family

"Drugs changed him, that’s when he became belligerent. Then he didn’t care about his appearance or cleanliness, he didn’t bathe, his teeth got loose. He had an extremely high I.Q., but the narcotics affected his brain."

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Bobby's personal Quotes

“I had everything. I was earning more than $50,000 a year, working steadily with good parts. Then I started putting all my spare time in my arm. I’m not really sure why I started using narcotics. I was 17 when I first experimented with the stuff. In no time at all I was using whatever was available, mostly heroin, because I had the money to pay for it.”

— (Standing before a California judge in 1961 on his drug addiction)

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