Who was the animation model and provided the voice for Peter Pan in the 1953 Disney Classic movie?

Robert Cletus Driscoll (March 3, 1937 – c. March 30, 1968) was an American actor known for his film and television performances from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios' best-known live-action pictures of that period including "Song of the South" and "Treasure Island.

He then served as the reference animation model for close ups and provided the voice for the title role in "Peter Pan".

Sadly like many child actors he had difficulty transitioning into adult roles.

He found a few but turned to drugs at the end of his teen years and went to prison for a year. He moved to New York in 1965 after his release.

He became part of Andy Warhol's Greenwich Village art community and began focusing on his artistic talents. Sadly that didn't last as on March 30, 1968, two boys playing in a deserted East Village tenement found his body lying on a cot, with two empty beer bottles and religious pamphlets scattered on the ground. A post mortem determined that he had died from heart failure caused by advanced atherosclerosis from his drug use. No identification was on the body, and they could make no positive identification. His unclaimed body was buried in an unmarked grave in New York City's Potter's Field on Hart Island.

Late in 1969, his mother sought the help of officials at Disney studios to find him, for a hoped-for reunion with his father, who was nearing death. This resulted in a fingerprint match at the NYPD which located his burial on Hart Island.