Check him out in THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING; he shares the screen with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters and nearly steals the film.

@cunard61. I think Brandon became a better actor as an adult.

I remember him in Blue Denim, a film of a play the original intent of which was completely reversed.

He was in a film called Blue Denim.

So you missed the 1959 "Blue denim" a B&W film with Carol Lynley... Good movie, and so was "Night passage" with James Stewart, a western of 1957 where Brandon played an important part.

I agree. Several other biography videos ( A&E was bad for that) do this as well and it drives me crazy. Or using stock photos over and over again throughout the vid. I would love to assist in editing a few. I love your suggestion. Think they'll take it?

@@jeffguenette6354 Hi, Jeff! It would be a big project for you but I'm sure a very interesting one. Why not send him a message and see what happens. He might really like to have someone to work with. Couldn't hurt!!

@@RobertScott66208 Hmm. Well, ya never know. I'll keep you posted. Thanks Robert.

i hear you but to be fair Brandon's most memorable work came when he was 7 ot 8 - Shane and Member of the Wedding, then later in his twenties - Hud and All Fall Down. i'm not sure what he did inbetween.

I agree Robert and admire your tone. This channel is fantastic, but a few alterations would make the videos really special. The respect and good intentions of your message to the creator is brilliant and it's saddening to see some of the coarser criticism that isn't helpful. After all, we enjoy the channel and want to see it reach higher ground not dishearten the creator and put him off producing this fascinating content. All the best!

And then only to have some jackass fabricate a Gay life story that never even existed!!

I put him in the Unsung position as Montgomery Cliff..similar eras great but in my view underappreciated.

It was a motorcycle. Crashed into a van. Devastating injuries.

He was driving a van

I sort of guessed that he had the motorcycle in the van and that it ended up on top of him after the crash. VW buses tended to get torn to pieces in anything bigger than a fender-bender, so anything could have ended up anywhere.

Homosexual ? Where did you get that shit from? You wish

@@johnfox9169 I remember the picture in the paper, looked similar to a Chinook camper Van, he hit what looked like a center guard rail

I believe Brandon was 100% straight! A very gifted actor and I had the pleasure of meeting with in 1962, His birthday is 7 days before me! April 9, 1942 and me, April 2 1942

Thanks for your clarifying info on an actor whose bright career ended tragically early.

The "narrator" is actually an AI generated voice.

@@eblackadder3 thanks (stupid me!)

Yes, Lee. He was a talented and goodhearted fellow; a fine actor too, dying way too young. All human males are implanted by Nature with such dual-love capacity. No other fact could be more self-proving as it has over the eons, as it. The pathetic deniers work overtime to deep-six their own despised (as-taught and learned) reality, and egads do they suffer unbeknownst and, in some cases as-knowing, that being even worse as "closet" style, and thus the energy expended at keeping 'the secret' close. Abidingly tragic, isn't it? We do it to ourselves by humoring/abiding the three monotheist SYSTEMS of belief, and systems they surely are!

@leecrowley2101. I don’t know how many people know this, but Brandon was in an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” in 1960, where he played a developly disabled teenager who hangs around a carnival. It was never aired because the network found it too disturbing. I’m sure it probably can be found on DVD or the internet.

Duhvilda

B: that's right honey, sexy boy! Ruff Ruff

@terry Take a cold shower.

@@johna.4334 Mind your own business, JOAN!

Brandon DeWilde gay

What country dost thou hail from? America here ('MERICA! 🇺🇲) and two syllables duh-WILD sounds might fine to me.

I knew Brandon in summer camp in Maine. He pronounced his name in three syllables. We were both in Cabin 6. In age we were all proto-sexual, hormones still on low heat.. One day a bunch of us signed up to go off-campus to the movies. It was the summer that three different movies set in ancient Egypt came out. As we were were exiting the movie and I was all enthused about how the movie crew must have have had a hard time getting all their cameras and everything inside of the temples and pyramids, Brandon explained that it was all movie sets.

'Hud' is superb in every way.

Unfortunately its TOTAL BULLSHIT.

The narrator is British so I’ve noticed he has a great speaking voice he mispronounces many names and places.

Every time he mispronounces the name, I grit my teeth!

Thank you for posting this!!! Saved me from doing it!

@@GeneRogers-xl9um British or not, you can still learn hoiw to pronounce a pewrsons name correctly.

@@mikeytrahant943 of course! But, I think he might be older and I definitely hear his British accent which I didn’t mean as negative. He just quite often says with a British accent and might be a little off. I have been all over the world and have no problems with different accents. But, although he doesn’t always correctly pronounce names correctly I understand him perfectly. I’ve lived in China 20 years and I speak Chinese, Spanish and French. I’m sure to many even my friends I have an accent

They do mess these up a lot.easier to look him up on internet.

Exactly, he was married twice and the last time was not long before the accident, and he had a child with his 1st wife. He had the accident in his smaller van motorhome, he hit the center divider and sitting so close to the front of the van near Denver in Lakewood and, he was killed. He was there working a Denver stage production of butterfly's are free. He was working on a music career with his friend Gram Parsons This post on him is ridiculous mess

motorcycle was in the back.

@@ixlr8677 it looked like a bubble top camper van

That how it works when you're making it up as you go along, and you don't care enough about the subjects, or the truth, to keep your story straight, or to find out how to pronounce a subject's name.

Now that's funny😅

Another closely guarded secret...

Agree 100%

I'm 68 but I read the article about his death. I remember reading he was driving a van . Can some one straighten this out please . Try to get the Facts right ✅.

Exactly

Sure you were there

@@brendagirard3890 - I read in several places that the fatal moment of his car accident he was driving to act in the play of "Butterflies are free"....In other sites, like here, they say he was going to visit his wife at the hospital... I even read that his son Jesse had died at an early age and that drove him to the abuse of drugs and alcohol. For all I know, Jesse is alive and doing fine up to this day.

Seemed more like typical male teenage hero worship to me.

One of my favorite movies.

Sinatra won the supporting Oscar that year for the role of Maggio in "From Here to Eternity"

@Greg. It’s easy when you’re making things up.

From ONE SOURCE, a sleazy Gay website with fake nudes of Branden and even the website had a disclaimer saying this was very unlikely. Either this guy stole it verbatim or he writes for that Gay website too.

@@DH-ve5bl Ha Ha Ha Do you think this guy REALLY makes up these stories? That's a disgrace to this beloved kid star. Thanks for your comment.

Saying he had sex daily with one, two, or three male or female partners is irresponsible. There is zero evidence to support such a claim. He has a son and probably grandkids at this point. Do you think this is something they want to hear? Stop being gossipy,

@@jm7804 This fits into the ''anything for a buck'' category. Wonder whether the family has considered suing him for slander?

He plagiarized various articles in their entireties which is why he is all over the place in his timeline and always repetitious 😡

@@withgoddess8029 Aha. But why???

@@pauljbaker587 Character assassination?

Add to that the skipping and pictures not relating to the characters he is talking about...dragging it out to take more time. Waste of time!

Exactly.... he could have done this whole thing in 10 minutes instead of 18 minutes.

And not a single picture from “Member of the Wedding,” even though there was lots of discussion of the play and film. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Whinge, whinge, moany, moany, whinge, whinge. Have you ever thought of trying to do better?

This guy is total BS. I found a sleazy Gay website where he stole this entire text from and even the website said the source was highly unreliable!

So true...We humans are so fast when it comes to criticize others or spread rumors about someone just because we don't like him/her...! But let's remember: "what goes around, then comes around".

It is believed that Paul Newman and James Dean had hooked up.

@@GlennYoung0427 Note that the narrator here did not address Newman's reaction when de Wilde supposedly tried to seduce him.

Yuck

As long as you perceive it be fiction I agree. I wouldn't trust anything Darwin Porter has to say.

Walter Pantera What about Lassie?

Where there's smoke, there's always fire...as old as the hills...

Until proven true, that's ALL they are; just stories.

Mostly smoke, and if it were not for the rumor-mongers, would die out.

Wrong! Why besmirch the name of a great humanitarian such as Paul Newman by comparing then to sordid trashy people like the pond scum that are Will Smith and his "husband"

brando outed newman just prior to brando's passing.

It was a treasure for a kid in the early '60s...!

Yes, I heard that comment too. Just another contradictory remark that pervades too many “documentaries” offering personal insights into others lives!

@@BRABAZON49 It's probably some Serbian guy using Speechelo to get a Brit accent on the narration !

@@cruzcontrol1504 BINGO!! And the Speechelo software here is faulty. The accent vacillates between a refined Australian accent and an RP British accent.

I’m not quite sure what that means either, unless you’re referring to the old English idiom that’s most popular usually among young people. “ Eat, Drink and be Merry for tomorrow we die.” Although it also has a biblical connotation to it, with two opposing meanings. 1. “ Life is short, so you should enjoy it while you can, and not concern yourself with trivial’s and what you have no control over.” or 2. Do not say as the epicurean, who bestows the wisdom of a fool, and complains against the admonishments of God, preferring to indulge his pleasures of the senses, proclaiming, Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.

@@garywilson7992 As an Elizabethan poet once wrote "Gather ye rosebuds while you may"

Well, Paul Newman, was having sex with quite a few men, even George Peppard, that was all covered up, and Peppard died of a type of pneumonia that people with AIDS, got and died from, they were able to cover it up saying Peppard died from lung cancer, because he smoked a lot, but Peppard, liked his men as well as his women, Peppard and James Dean were an item, and Tab Hunter was also one of their accomplishments, I would have liked to have been with George Peppard, he was so handsome, Just my type too.❤🎉😊

the stage version

He was in the play

Yes that year got in serious car accident. In Aprial 1972 by the time Class of 1999 was shown as repeat two months ltr BRANDON was killed. At time no one knew.

@@guygrip9634 iam glad you told me that,I didn't realize when the show came out,he dead, maybe Rod Sterling should have decided the show,in his memory, just a thought.

@@tinaholman956 THE REASON WHY THEY DIDNT IT WAS SHOWN SEPT 1971 THEN AGAIN IN MARCH OF 1972. HE DIDNT DIE TILL JULY 1972. WHEN IT WENT TO REPEATS BUY 1973. THEY WOULDNT DO ANY MENTION. .I ALLMOST DIED OF SAME THING. IN APRIAL JUST AFTER EPISODE NIGHT GALLERY. SINNS OF FATHER. MY DAD WAS DRUNK AT NIGHT GOING TO CHINESE RESTURENT HE HIT BOLDER BLOCK WE WENT UP IN THE AIR I HIT GLASS FACE FIRST. THANK GOD NOT THREW IT. EVERY WENT THREE D FROM.IMPACT. . I THOUGHT I WAS GONE NEXT MIN EVERY ONE WAS LIEN CRIPPLED. THEY GOT OUT ALIVE. I WAS WORST HAD PLASTIC SURGERY ON MY EYE. AND FACE WAS PURPLE. THOSE DAYS DIDNT INVESTIGATE. I WAS CURED BY THE TIME THIS ACTOR DIED OF SAME THING. HE DIED BAD HEAD INJURYS. MY DAD RENTED CARS AFTER WENT TO BEST PARKS ALL GONE NOW. TODAY THEY WOULD GOT HIM DUI. I WAS NINE. WHEN BRANDON PAST WAY. THOSE DAYS NEVER MENTION WHEN PERSON DIED UNLESS YOU WERE BIG. BOBBY DARIN WAS IN NIGHT GALLERY PLAYEN GANGSTER. DIED YEAR LTR 1973. JOE FLYNN MCHALES NAVY FROM EPISODE FUNERAL. DIED 1974. BOY NIGHT GALLERY WAS ONLY SUPER NATERAL SHOW .ON. AND SIXTH SENSE. NOTHEN BUT CRIME ON ABC CBC NBC. EXCEPT FOR RE RUNS. SYNDICATIONS.

That's interesting. I grew up near Norfolk.

His name being Americanized sounds much better.

That's the way I remember it.

@@jerrylee8261 Wild and Americans is a good fit haha

thought he was great in Sorcerer's Apprentice. glad he got to branch out a bit before he passed.

No excuse for such a single-car accident...he was likely high on something.

@@curbozerboomer1773 maybe tired, his wife was in the hospital and he was on his way to see her

I don't think they had seat belts back then either

@@629lrogers they had lap belts, but vans didn't give you much protection

@@califdad4 - That was the cause of his rush...his wife was in a hospital and had given birth to a boy.

Today it's Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

Yeah, it's getting tiresome ! 🥱

Bardon De Wilde was driving a camper truck and not wearing his seatbelt. That is the fact! There was no motorcycle involved at all!

Perhaps because his life was too short?

I began to think that hearing fingernails across a blackboard would be more stimulating.

Besides "Shane" I saw him in the '57 film "Night passage" with James Stewart, then in the '59 movie "Blue denim" with Carol Lynley, later in '63 in "Hud", and finally in '64 "In harm's way" with John Wayne.

I never heard that.

Well if there was marijuana involved who knows he may well have blown at least one of The Beatles if not them all

@@lindajohnson4204 - There we go again...! Any verifiable source of this drug-related story ?

@@lindaatkinson3962 Any verifiable source for "I never heard that"? I don't think so. Only my testimony. And it's been so long, I'm not completely sure that I never heard about it. I may have. By the way, it's Andre B. DeWilde's 81st birthday, today!

The marijuana and his penis,. The Beatles much appreciated it!!!

Vintage: I heard that Brandon seduced you & you love it! You told Paul not to seduce him because he was yours!

Vintage: get to the action how good was the seduction & French kissing!

Village: I hear your lips smacking and hear you giggling!

Hey lady, you're cute, suga lips!

@terry What the...???!!!

Lindley.

Saw Blue Denim as a teen. Great movie and also ground breaking. Both Brandon and Carol did a great job. Had a teen crush on Lynley for a while. Beautiful lady.

@@damonhowze2793 - Last name was Lynley.

that's her and Brandon's holding Melvyn Douglas's Oscar for Hud.

That's correct!!

Well Eleanor, at least he gave it a good try! 👍 To myself, he seemed a naturally-endearing person.🌼

He was so good in HUD! I saw him in that film when I was 7.

This just isn't for me, let's be creative and get with a topic that millions like myself find uno Numero women

Well said Ms James vaugham!

I've found out in life, several people or friends that were gay that I had no idea about. Doesn't change my opinion of them at all. Sadly, there today is a contingent of this group that want hetero people to not only accept their behavior but prove it by accepting depraved behavior in public. I feel sorry for the normal gay people.

@@yallainrite3658 How condescending can you be! The "normal" gay person is doing just fine, thank you.

Well now you have!

he co-starred with Paul Newman and Warren Beatty. pretty impressive company for a relative new-comer.

@Rb Smith Please watch Shane.

@@haintedhouse2990 He wasn't a newcomer, he was a star as a child before anyone had heard of Newman or Beatty.

@@terrya8989 Beatty was the real newcomer. He didn't make his first movie til 1961- a decade or so after de Wilde's first movie.

Jack Palance who was the villain in Shane was 6'4" & probably a foot taller than Ladd but he was a great actor

@@gerryconstant4914 He was a standup person in real life also. That's what matters to me.

I read once that if the opposite actor was taller than Ladd they would dig a hole and make the taller actor stand in it.:)

@@lynngraham2934 or get a box for Ladd to stand on.

Brandon wasn't really tall...something like 5'10''....

Then why click the video? You read the title...

Sometimes it is just sensationalism, or slander.

@@chs75 I actually hoped it would be how Newman was disgusted by it

@@dittohead7044 why would he be disgusted?

@@ICONICPARIS because ditto is a homophobe.

Which one? The Hollywood actor? Or the Broadway one? The Hollywood one hitch-hiked to Hollywood, most of the way with a kind gentleman who shared his motel rooms with Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock during the trip. (Ahem!) The Broadway one is openly gay.

From what I have read Paul wasn't as innocent in his younger days as many would think

By adding a question mark, they could try to use it as kind of a backside-covering disclaimer, of saying things they have no right to say, IF it ever became an issue. I think this is a bottom feeder channel, and they'll say anything that will get them likes and money.

This presenter's (or script writer's) grammar is appalling as is his voice and pronunciation.

he does it so that you will comment. It helps the channel. 😂

Listen who’s talking. We all do. Cheers from Australia.

it is AI.

You are correct.