Pudgy-faced, reddish-haired, semi-popular child star during the WWII
era, on radio at the age of 4.
A marvel at dialects for one of such a young age, he won the Critics Award in
1944 for Once Upon a Time (1944).
Interviewed in "Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television" by Tom Goldrup and Jim Goldrup (McFarland, 2002).
His father was singer-composer Will Donaldson (William John Donaldson). After his mother, Josephine Marion "Jo" (Plant), died when he was just months old, his dad married organist/composer Muriel Pollock.