Bobby Breen was born on November 4, 1927 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Way Down South (1939), Make a Wish (1937) and Breaking the Ice (1938).
Songs At Yuletide, Breen's Blues - [The Dave Cash Collection], Heres That Rainy Day - HD Remastered 2010
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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[on audience reactions to his nightclub act as an adult] They expect me to come onstage still wearing short pants. It takes a lot of work out there to make them believe I'm grown up. They resent it somehow. It's something I have to fight every single performance.
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Fact
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His parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants.
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Latterly ran a talent agency in Florida.
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Living in Tamarac, Florida. [February 2002]
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Featured on the cover of The Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
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Breen appeared in nine films between 1936 and 1942. Four of those films earned single Oscar nominations: three for Best Original Score and one for Best Scoring. Breen's last ,in Johnny Doughboy (1942), did not afford him the chance to sing solo but only gave him one number, shared with Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and George 'Spanky' McFarland. The plot revolved around has-been child stars trying to put together a USO show. Unfortunately, Breen's speaking voice at that point in his life - he would have been 15 - recorded like a Disney mouse.
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Gave up his movie career to pursue his nightclub singing act.
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Married 3 times
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Boy soprano
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Ken Dodd Show
1962
TV Series
Jack Hylton Presents
1955
TV Series
Wicked Robber
Johnny Doughboy
1942
Bobby Breen
Escape to Paradise
1939
Roberto Ramos
Way Down South
1939
Timothy Reid Jr.
Fisherman's Wharf
1939
Tony Roma
Breaking the Ice
1938
Tommy Martin
Hawaii Calls
1938
Billy Coulter
Make a Wish
1937
Chip Winters
Rainbow on the River
1936
Philip Ainsworth
Let's Sing Again
1936
Billy Gordon
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Way Down South
1939
performer: "Louisiana" 1939, "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers!" 1879 uncredited, "Some Folks" 1858 uncredited, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" uncredited
Fisherman's Wharf
1939
performer: "Sell Your Cares For a Song" 1939, "Fisherman's Chanty" 1939, "Ah! Marie Maria, Marí" ca 1890 uncredited, "Santa Lucia" 1849 uncredited, "Funiculi, Funicula" 1880 uncredited, "Torna a Surriento Return to Sorrento" 1902 uncredited, "Ombra mai fù" 1738 uncredited
Hawaii Calls
1938
performer: "Hawaii Calls", "Down Where the Trade Winds Blows", "That's the Hawaiian in Me"
$600,000
