Actor Mickey Kuhn, best known for playing little Beau Wilkes in the classic “Gone with the Wind”, died on Sunday at the age of 90.
Child star of the 30s and 40s, American actor Mickey Kuhn, who notably played little Beau Wilkes in the eight-Oscar feature film Gone with the Wind, died on Sunday November 20 at the age of 90. , according to The Hollywood Reporter.
His most famous role is probably that of the son of Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland) and Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) in Gone with the Wind, which he played at the age of 6, but Mickey Kuhn was also illustrated in other big productions of the time. We had seen him in the credits of the detective films Dick Tracy and The Grip of Crime, as well as in the western La Rivière rouge.
In 1951, twelve years after Gone with the Wind, Mickey Kuhn reunited with Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire, in which he plays a sailor. Was he the actress’ lucky charm? Anyway, the two Oscars won by the latter were each time she rubbed shoulders with the young man in the casting!
Michael Kuhn, who had also starred in The Charge of the Bluecoats, stopped his acting career in 1957 after appearing in three episodes of the series Alfred Hitchcock presents. He was then 25 years old.
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