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The other seven surviving cast members are: Donnie Smith, Mildred Kornman, Margaret Kerry, Betta St.
#ORIGINAL LITTLE RASCALS CAST STILL LIVING SERIES#
The other known name is Robert Blake (real name Michael Gubitosi) who was the annoying, constantly crying Mickey in the 1940s series of Our Gang films. The most significant living cast member is Sidney Kibrick who played “Woim,” the sidekick of tough kid “Butch” Patrick. Today there are only nine surviving cast members of the scores of kids who appeared in the Our Gang films. Leonard Maltin’s authoritative book about Our Gang makes no mention of Don Law. One month after Alfalfa died, Helen Parrish another real Our Gang alumus died of cancer at age 35 on February 22. Eclipsing Alfalfa’s death that same day was the passing of legendary director Cecil B. An argument over a dog and a reward was the cause. Just two weeks previous to Law’s death one of the biggest Our Gang stars did die.Ĭarl Switzer, better known as “Alfalfa: was shot to death on January 21, 1959. Then there’s the outside chance that someone close to Law saw an opportunity to create a hoax on an anonymous death. Family and friends probably spread the word from Law himself. Who provided the information about Law appearing in Our Gang is unsourced. Law left behind a wife and three children. He later managed a clothing store and worked for Greyhound – Harmony Shortline Bus Companies. After his film career Law’s family moved to Meadville. In a longer obituary in the New York Herald Tribune it says Law appeared in 20 Hal Roach comedy films. Possibly Don Law was in some kiddie film as child, but was told he was in Our Gang. Young 'Bonedust' (9/15/17 - 9/10/51) Died in a hotel fire, which started when he fell asleep smoking in bed. According to crime writer David Lohr, there are some additions to the Our Gang death list: Robert H. So the fact checkers back in 1959 just didn’t do any checking when it came to Don Law. Robert Blake, who was cleared of charges of killing his wife, did appear in some of the later Little Rascals episodes and played Mickey. Many of the non-Our Gang child actors were told by their parents that they were part of Our Gang, In fact they may have been in motion pictures but were not in Our Gang.
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When you are a youngster and have a brief movie appearance, your memory may not be the best barometer of accuracy. Over the years a handful of people claimed to have been part of the Our Gang films who were not. So how did Don Law get identified as a former Our Gang Comedy star known as Fats?
Norman and Joe were the large children who played “fat” kids.īut Our Gang creator Hal Roach never named any of his rotund child actors “Fats.”As a matter of fact in its 22 year run from 1922 -1944 there is no record of anyone called Fats. Not too much work coming up with nicknames. True, there was Joe Cobb who played “Joe’ and and Norman “Chubby” Chaney who replaced Cobb and played…Chubby.