From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia David John Stollery III born January 18 1941 in Los Angeles California is a former American child actor and as an adult a noted industrial designer He appeared in numerous Disney movies and television programs in the 1950s He is best known for his teenage role as the loner Marty in the television serials Spin and Marty on the Mickey Mouse Club in the mid1950s At the age of seven he was named Child Actor of the Year for his role in the Broadway production On Borrowed Time He then appeared in several films including A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court in 1949 and Where Danger Lives in 1950 In the early 1950s Stollery appeared in various television programs including I Love Lucy Dragnet My Friend Irma The Red Skelton Show and The Ray Milland Show It was on the latter program in the role of The Prodigy that Walt Disney took notice of his acting and had the 14year old signed to a Disney Studio contract for the lead character of Marty Markham in the Spin and Marty serials televised on the Mickey Mouse Club between 1955 and 1957 In 2000 Stollery and Tim Considine his costar in the Spin and Marty serials made cameo appearances in The New Adventures of Spin and Marty Suspect Behavior a madeforTV movie on the ABC network A DVD version of the Adventures of Spin Marty was released in December 2005 as part of the fifth wave of the Walt Disney Treasures series On the 50th anniversary of the serials premiere Stollery and Considine who are nineteen days apart in age are interviewed by Leonard Maltin as a DVD bonus feature about their experiences filming the hit series After his teenage years Stollery decided not to continue acting as a fulltime career He studied design at the Art Center College of Design then became an automobile designer with General Motors and later Toyota At Toyota he designed the second generation A40 Series Toyota Celica in 1978 Description above from the Wikipedia article David Stollery licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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