Biography
Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His family moved to Los Angeles, California, when he was fifteen months old. In 1954 he accompanied his elder brother Joe to an audition for a production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Joe was not cast but Kirk was, and he made his stage debut opposite Will Rogers, Jr., and Bobby Driscoll. Talent scouts saw him perform and he was signed to a Hollywood agency.
The young actor soon began working regularly on television. In 1956, he appeared in the NBC western anthology series Frontier in the episode entitled "The Devil and Dr. O'Hara." In the same year, he appeared in Down Liberty Road, a short commercial travelogue produced by Greyhound Lines to promote their Scenicruiser buses. He was seen on television by Walt Disney who signed him to a long-term contract.
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