Appearances

Title	Role	Year	Approx. Age
Gidget	Hot Shot	1959	26
The Green Promise	Peter 'Buzz' Wexford	1949	16
April Showers	Buster	1948	15

Robert Ellis (August 24, 1933 ? November 23, 1973) was an American child actor in the 1940s and 1950s who played Henry Aldrich on radio. Robert was born in Chicago to Fern Bloomfield. He was educated in professional children's schools in New York City and Hollywood and later studied theater arts at Columbia University.

He made his acting debut at age 5 and appeared in some 50 movies and television shows, sometimes billed as "Bobby Ellis." He showed great talent in the 1948 film April Showers when he was 14-year-old, (the one and only time he would use his acrobatic dancing style on the big screen). Never signed to a studio contract, Robert was frequently hired by all the studios at that time including Universal and RKO. He played Babe Ruth as a boy in The Babe Ruth Story (1948), and played opposite Natalie Wood and Ted Donaldson in The Green Promise (1949). He is best remembered in the The Aldrich Family TV series in 1951. He was a frequent cast member in the Corliss series of films A Kiss for Corliss (1949) and Meet Corliss Archer (1951). He was even one of the voices of a lost boy in Disney's Peter Pan (1953) and good friends with Bobby Driscoll, four years his junior.

In 1948, the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences awarded him a special certificate for his acting and dancing role as Buster Tyme in the movie "April Showers," which starred Ann Sothern and Jack Carson.

He died of kidney failure at the age of 40 in Los Angeles. At the time of his death, he was a producer of educational films.