Circus Boy

After his parents were killed in a high-wire accident, ten year-old Corky Wallace was adopted by the circus owner, Big Tim Champion. Corky rode his baby elephant Bimbo, dealt with his adolescent problems, and helped the adults keep the circus in the black as the show moved from town to town each week.
Corky shared screen time on the live-action Circus Boy with clown Uncle Joey and the always energetic Pete. Corky's pet chimpanzee was called Bobo. Other featured animals were Sultan, the tiger and Nuba the Lion.
Young Mickey Braddock, who played Corky on the show, took back his birth name of Mickey Dolenz when he shot to fame as the drummer for the 60's television pop group The Monkees. He is the son of George Dolenz who starred in the children's adventure series "The Count of Monte Cristo"

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Entertainment

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• circus boy
• circus
• boy
• tv
• television
• 1950s
• '50s
• children
• show
• corky
• mickey dolenz

[flimflam742]

The clown, I believe, is played by either Noah Beery or Chill Wills.

[WhirligigTV]

Yes, it's Noah Beery

[OTRNut]

@WhirligigTV if i'm not mistaken, isn't Noah Beery the nephrew of Wallace Beery?

[WhirligigTV]

@OTRNut You are not mistaken

[Babyhowdy233]

@rukeyser

He was such a sweet man!

[mrmjb1960]

Micky Braddock later became Micky Dolenz..He'd became Braddock,because he'd shared his name with his dad George Michael Dolenz!

[rukeyser]

Noah Berry had the sweetest voice.

[daisyrulzxxx]

Mickey is the cutest thing:')<3

[honeypie327]

wow..loved this movie..never dreamed Mickey would grow up to become a Monkee..

Still love him today!!!

[unclebobunclebob]

So cute. Too bad he grew up to be a monkey.

[hamtrak]

@flimflam742 or............Will Chills.

[inkey2]

@etbella3 funny....thats the first thing I thought of...he's dressed like a nazi.....wierd

[inkey2]

@kgrusso yep......thats Rocky from the rockford files

[teenonator]

I think my five favorite shows when I was little were Spin & Marty, Rin Tin Tin, Circus Boy, Fury, and the Lassie years with Tommy Rettig(star of "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T")