He received a juvenile Academy Award for the 1946 film, playing a boy who adopts a young deer. He was later featured as John Wayne’s son in “Rio Grande.”

A former child star who won a Juvenile Academy Award for his role in a classic film is dead at age 90. “The Yearling” actor 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, California.

Claude Jarman Jr., the child actor who captured hearts in the 1946 classic The Yearling and later shared the screen with John Wayne in the 1950 western Rio Grande, has passed away. Jarman passed away peacefully in his sleep from natural causes at his home in Kentfield,