Tommy Rettig
Tommy Rettig
Thomas Noel Rettig, known as Tommy Rettig, was an American child actor, computer software engineer, and author. Rettig is remembered for portraying the character "Jeff Miller" in the first three seasons of CBS's Lassie television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs as Jeff's Collie. He also co-starred with another former child actor, Tony Dow, in the mid-1960s television teen soap opera Never Too Young and recorded the song by that title with the group The TR-4...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth10 December 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Next night I got the call to fly home. That was it. It played a week and closed. That was my only starring role in a feature motion picture.
We sued the producers of the show for four years in a row. One year they put out a Lassie doll with my picture on it and paid me no royalties.
I was just starting to get heavily into girls and cars and cigarettes and booze, and I wanted to have a normal chance to have fun.
But anyway aside from alcohol and nicotine, LSD was the first drug l ever took.
We lasted on the show for four years.
My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.
So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.
Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.
A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.
Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
The Beatles had already been out for a few years, hair was growing longer and marijuana started to show up at parties and so on.
I just wanted to have a chance at the real world. Then I found out through working a series of straight jobs that straight jobs suck!
I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.