Eddie Hodges

b. 5 March 1947, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA. In the mid-50s child star Hodges appeared in television programmes The Jackie Gleason Show and Name That Tune and was seen on Broadway 405 times in the hit musical The Music Man. In 1959 he starred alongside Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson in the film A Hole In The Head and can be heard on Sinatra's hit from the film, ‘High Hopes'. He also had a major role in the film of Huckleberry Finn, starred with Hayley Mills in Summer Magic and even had his own television show, The Secret World Of Eddie Hodges. His youthful revival of...