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Tommy Rettig

Highest Rated: 83% The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)

Lowest Rated: 57% River of No Return (1954)

Birthday: Dec 10, 1941

Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA

American child star of stage, screen, radio, and TV who reached a career peak as Jeff Miller, the first young master of CBS-TV's "Lassie" from 1954-57. Rettig started performing at age six, touring with Mary Martin in "Annie Get Your Gun." He started in films at ten with a small role in Elia Kazan's medical crime drama, "Panic in the Streets" (1950), and went on to amass 20 feature credits over the course of the 1950s in films directed by such luminaries as Douglas Sirk ("Weekend With Father" 1951), Michael Curtiz ("The Egyptian" 1954), Otto Preminger ("River of No Return" 1954), and Vincente Minnelli ("The Cobweb" 1955). The film for which he will probably always be remembered is one of the quirkiest children's films ever made--"The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T." (1953).

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Highest rated movies

83% 74% The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
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75% 47% The Cobweb
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57% 54% River of No Return
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64% The Raid
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Gobs and Gals
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For Heaven's Sake
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61% The Egyptian
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59% The Jackpot
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Weekend With Father
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70% So Big
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Tommy Rettig

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 71% The Last Wagon Billy (Character) - 1956
75% 47% The Cobweb Mark (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 33% At Gunpoint Billy Wright (Character) - 1955
57% 54% River of No Return Mark Calder (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 64% The Raid Larry Bishop (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 61% The Egyptian Thoth (Character) - 1954
83% 74% The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Bart Collins (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 70% So Big Dirk Age 8 (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paula David Larson (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Elopement Daniel Reagan (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gobs and Gals Bertram (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Weekend With Father David Bowen/Shorty (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 50% The Strip Artie Ardrey (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet For Heaven's Sake Joe Blake (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 59% The Jackpot Tommy Lawrence (Character) - 1950

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Lassie Jeff Miller (Character) 1954-1957 1970-1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive J.J. Eckhardt (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Novak Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sugarfoot Unknown (Guest Star) 1958 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Billy Gentry (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Timmy & Lassie Unknown (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jeff's Collie Unknown (Character) 1954-1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Studio One Unknown (Character) 1949