Brandon de Wilde didn't have an acting role in the 1956 film "The Searchers", an epic Western, directed by John Ford. The film was based on the 1954 novel "The Searchers" by Alan Le May. Stars include John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran, Ethan Edwards. He is looking for his niece, Debbie Edwards (Natalie Wood); she has been abducted by a band of Comanches. Ethan is accompanied by his adoptive nephew, Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter). Others in the movie include Vera Miles as Laurie Jorgensen, Ward Bond as Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnson Clayton, John Qualen as Lars Jorgensen, Olive Carey as Mrs. Jorgensen, Ken Curtis as Charlie McCorry, Henry Brandon as Chief Cicatriz (Scar), Harry Carey Jr. as Brad Jorgensen, Antonio Moreno as Emilio Gabriel Fernández y Figueroa, Hank Worden as Mose Harper, Walter Coy as Aaron Edwards, Dorothy Jordan as Martha Edwards, Pippa Scott as Lucy Edwards, Patrick Wayne as Lt. Greenhill, Lana Wood as young Debbie Edwards, Robert Lyden as Ben Edwards, and Beulah Archuletta as Wild Goose Flying in the Night Sky (Look). This film was both a big theatrical and commercial success.

In the film "The Member of the Wedding", a 1952 film noir drama, directed by Fred Zinnemann; "Shane", a 1953 Western, produced and directed by George Stevens; and "Night Passage", a 1957 Western, directed by James Neilson, Brandon de Wilde performs as a young boy in an appropriate role for a boy his age. He plays John Henry, Joey Starrett, and Joey Adams, respectively.

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