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David Ackles

Despite failing to gain the mainstream recognition his huge talent deserved, David Ackles was a singer-songwriter from the early 1970s who created strange, mournful torch songs that, filled with darkness and theatre, went on to influence the likes of Elvis Costello, Elton John and Phil Collins. Ackles started his career as a child actor at just four-years-old, and featured in six of the 'Rusty' children's films for Columbia Pictures, which told the stories of an heroic German Shepherd dog and were popular B-movies in the mid-to-late 1940s. Growing up, he also sang obscure vaud...