Mr. Jarman Jr., won a juvenile Academy Award for his performance in “The Yearling,” as a lonely towheaded boy who adopts an orphaned fawn.

Claude Jarman Jr. was new to the Bay Area and barely in his 30s when he became the executive director of the San Francisco Film Society in the mid-1960s. But thanks to a keen business sense and the Oscar-winning child actor’s extensive Hollywood connections,

Oscar winner Claude Jarman Jr, who starred alongside icons including John Wayne, has sadly died at his Marin County home in California at the age of 90

A former child star who won a Juvenile Academy Award for his role in a classic film is dead at age 90. “The Yearling” star Claude Jarman Jr. died Sunday, his wife Katie told The Hollywood Reporter. She said he died in his sleep of natural causes at his home in Kentfield,