And while he had never heard of “The Yearling,” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 novel, he seemed a natural fit for the central role of Jody Baxter, a young boy growing ...

Rode for the Film Noir Foundation in 2016. In The Yearling, he played Jody Baxter, the son of characters portrayed by Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Pulitzer ...

The family of Civil War veteran Penny Baxter, who lives and works on a farm in Florida with his wife, Orry, and their son, Jody. The only surviving child of the family, Jody longs for ...