The
Artful Dodger...Jack Wild.
(b September 30 1952)
Jack
Wild had been in the stage production of Oliver! before the making of
the film that gave him an Oscar-nomination. He's just perfect in the role with
his streetwise style. He moved to Hollywood to make the TV series H.R. Pufnstuf
and returned to England for a few more films before disappearing from the big
screen for a lot of years. Films: Flight of the doves 1971, Melody 1971, The
pied piper 1972, Keep it up downstairs 1976, Robin Hood, prince of thieves 1991
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The boy (---) was about his own age: but one of the queerest looking boys that Oliver had ever seen. He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man. He was short of his age: with rather bow-legs, and little, sharp, ugly eyes. His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly, that it threatened to fall off every moment (---) He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels. He had turned the cuffs back, half-way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves (---) He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in his bluchers." / Charles Dickens