Robert Hutchins was killed in an airplane accident at age 19. Travis TedfordBug HallBrittany Ashton HolmesKevin Jamal WoodsJordan WarkolZachary MabryRoss BagleySam SalettaBlake Jeremy CollinsBlake McIver EwingCourtland.
He died at age 38 following a brutal beating.
He would later become known as 'Alfalfa', a character he played on the Hal Roach produced series of film shorts called Our Gang, known later in syndication as The Little Rascals. Mathew Bear led a life of crime and drugs. Carl Switzer was born in Paris, Illinois in 1927. Kendall McCormas, known as Breezy Brisbane, committed suicideįroggy - William Robert Laughline was killed in a motor scooter accident at age 16. The Our Gang leading lady contracted hepatitis and died at age 47. (many people wasn’t aware that buckwheat was a man!!) Some say there’s a curse on the Little Rascals - many died young, many violently (or in the case of Robert Blake ended up accused of murdering his wife).
While many of the child stars went on to live normal, full lives, a substantial number perished horribly.
William Thomas died at age 49 of a heart attack. The classic show Little Rascals is perhaps the earliest series with curse claims against it, with tragedy befalling many cast members. Something I bet a lot of you didn’t know, I certainly didn’t!”Ĭarl Switzer was shot to death at age 31.ģ00-pound Norman Chaney died at age 22 following an operation. I’m sure you too will be stunned just as much as I was!! OK here we go: History of Spanky and Our Gang Have you ever wondered as to what happen to the original “ Little Rascals“? Well move over your not alone!! My sweet/close friend Toni shared with me yesterday some interesting facts that even I didn’t know, I knew a little but not all this! McGowan, initially in the form of silent short films, from 1929 with. (Yeshe was a Little Rascal) Several of the LR’s met with tragic fates, which is why there is suppo. I think there might be one surviving cast member.Robert Blake.
The series created by the comedy film producer Hal Roach was produced in his studios from 1922 under the direction of Robert F. Answer (1 of 2): If you are referring to the movie series that was originally called Our Gang, they have pretty much all passed on. (Yes they fucking were.Disclaimer: I was not compensated for this post, I merely felt it was an interesting topic to share with my readers. The Little Rascals (in the original Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roachs Rascals) is a produced 1,922 to 1,944 US short film series about the adventures of a group of children.
Alfalfa sings 'The Barber of Seville' while bubbles come out of his mouth, an homage to the original Little Rascals TV series. Film historian Leonard Maltin, who has probably written more on The Little Rascals than anyone, and co-authored the book The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang, got to speak to many members of the cast through his research and explored the different directions their lives went. There are some great Our Gang moments here, with many scenes resurrecting those hilarious physical comedy gags of the original series. HELPING HANDS, Billy ‘Froggy’ Laughlin (center), Darla Hood (right), 1941. Was the original Little Rascals cast cursed? THE LITTLE RASCALS (1994) recaptures that essence with mostly positive results. We excluded things like overdoses and people who got heart attacks in their 50s because, well, we just don’t want to write a bunch of jokes about that kind of stuff today.īut we’ll leave it to you once you’ve seen the evidence. To prove so, we’re going to talk about the early, non-natural demises of original cast members in what promises to be our most depressing article yet. Sure, snopes has weighed in on this to preemptively tell us we’re wrong. But when we started looking into the actors who played iconic characters such as Spanky and Buckwheat and Alfalfa, we discovered something a little…perturbing. They remain such an important cultural touchstone that we even decided to revisit the characters in a 1994 motion picture (which, like, did only okay). From 1922 through 1944, the franchise, which you may know better as The Little Rascals, put out 220 short films and one film, featuring 41 child actors during that span. Our Gang helped define an entire era of early Hollywood entertainment. ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt “Okay guys, I don’t know who decided to write this article, but I’ve doubled our whiskey rations for it.