Sammy McKim
Born: 1924-12-20 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Died: 2004-07-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sammy McKim (December 20, 1924 – July 9, 2004) was a Canadian film actor and artist. He graduated from Los Angeles Art Center with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He died in Burbank, California from heart failure in 2004. McKim Served in the U.S. Army in 1943 with his brother David McKim where he fought in the Korean War. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross medal for being shot down in combat during the Korean War. After the war McKim stopped acting and became an artist, starting his career at the art department of Fox Studios before moving to the Walt Disney Company where he'd stay for the next 32 years until his retirement in 1987, 12 of which he would work closely with Walt Disney.
Filmography
1950
- Lonely Heart Bandits as Jimmy Ward
1949
- Flamingo Road
- You're My Everything as Messenger Boy (uncredited)
1948
- I, Jane Doe as Newsboy
1947
- Undercover Maisie as Trainee (uncredited)
- The Hucksters as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
1944
- Nevada as Marvy Ide
1943
- We've Never Been Licked as Senior Student (uncredited)
1942
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Boy
1941
- Sergeant York as Boy (uncredited)
- Pacific Blackout as Kid at Bomb
1940
- Little Men as Tommy
- Hi-Yo Silver as Sammy
- Rocky Mountain Rangers as Danny Burke
- Laddie as Leon Stanton
- Texas Terrors as Bob as a Boy
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Boy Ranger (uncredited)
- New Frontier as Stevie Braddock
- Dick Tracy's G-Men as Sammy Williams
- The Night Riders as Tim Randall
- Rovin' Tumbleweeds as Eddie
- Western Caravans as Matt Winters
- Flying G-Men as Billy McKay
1938
- The Old Barn Dance as Johnny Dawson
- The Lone Ranger as Sammy
- Red River Range as Tommy Jones
- Call The Mesquiteers as Timothy Irving
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Boots
1937
- It Happened in Hollywood as Boy
- The Game That Kills as Jack
- Heart of the Rockies as Davey Dawson
- The Painted Stallion as Christopher Kit Carson
- The Trigger Trio as Mickey Evans
- Gunsmoke Ranch as Jimmy Warren
- Mama Runs Wild as Boy
- Hit the Saddle as Tim Miller - Sheriff's Son
1936
- Free Rent
- Country Gentlemen as Billy Heath