Jack Wild in Robin Hood: PRINCE... | 1991

Clip Name: Stopping Maid Marian

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Jack Wild in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991

Starring: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Directed by: Kevin Reynolds
About this actor

Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was a British actor who achieved fame for his leading role in the 1969 children's TV series H.R. Pufnstuf and for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of the Artful Dodger in Oliver!. Wild was born into a working class family in Royton, near Oldham, Lancashire, to a labourer father and a mother who worked as a butcher. Wild moved to Hounslow, west London, with his parents during his childhood. He was discovered whilst playing football, by June Collins, mother of Genesis member Phil Collins, who asked if he wanted a job. He was educated at the independent Barbara Speake Stage School in Acton, London, and had to supplement his parents' modest incomes by working on a stage production of Oliver! in order to pay his school fees. It was at the premiere of...