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Wonderful Life's Young George Dies

Posted Jun 8, 08 10:25 AM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Bob Anderson, who played the young George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, has died of cancer. He was 75. Growing up in Hollywood with Tinseltown relatives, he first appeared onscreen as a baby, the AP reports. At 7, he acted with Shirley Temple and in 1945 appeared in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But his most famous role was the outgoing, altruistic Georgie Bailey who grows up to be James Stewart in the popular classic.

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Actor Bob Anderson, seen here in a 1995 photo taken in Palm Springs, Calif., died Friday. Anderson is best known for his role as George Bailey, the young boy in "It's a Wonderful Life."   (AP Photo/Victoria Anderson)
Bob Anderson, seen here in a 1946 publicity still at the age of 12, and who played George Bailey as a young boy in the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," died Friday, June 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Cumberland House)
Bob Anderson, right, seen here in 1946 in the role of George Bailey with H.B. Warner in the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," died Friday.   (AP Photo/Cumberland House)
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