Matthew Beard

...Up, and Washee Ironee as a background player. The "Buckwheat" character was a female at this time, portrayed by Our Gang kid Matthew "Stymie" Beard 's younger sister Carlena in For Pete's Sake!, and by Willie Mae Taylor in three other...

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For the English film actor (born 1989), see Matthew Beard (British actor). Matthew Beard, Jr. (January 1, 1925 - January 8, 1981) was an American child actor, most famous for portraying the character of Stymie in the Our Gang short films...

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...but Stepin Fetchit's image was used to popularize it. Many black film characters were based on Stepin Fetchit, including Matthew Beard's "Stymie" in the Our Gang comedies. (Perry repaid the reference: he guest-starred in an Our Gang...

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...a Paris cafe and watching New Wave films at the Cinematheque francaise. She has a would-be suitor in awkward school chum Graham (Matthew Beard), but she prefers the sound of her cello to his boyish muddling. Jenny's immediate concern is...

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named borough, Twickenham. Oxford-bound if she can get her Latin up to scratch, Jenny is being carefully wooed by Graham (Matthew Beard), whose only shortcoming is that he too is just 16. This limitation is made clear by the appearance of...

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...Studio called for $250 a week, more than any other kid (even Jackie Cooper) was earning at that time. His replacement was Matthew Beard . After leaving the gang, Hoskins got some small roles in feature films, and had a vaudeville act...

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...a birthday tea with her parents (played by Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour) and a schoolfriend (Matthew Beard). They eat Battenberg while Beard's character is humiliated by Sarsgaard's arrival. Beard's role is tiny, but his comic timing...

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...of the uncooperative Treacy family. Just outside the photographer's studio, Spanky is told by his friends (among them Matthew "Stymie" Beard and Tommy Bond), that Phocus plans to "shoot" him; thinking the camera is a cannon. This leads Spanky...

In this article: Wild Poses, Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Bedtime Worries, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Tommy Bond, Franklin Pangborn, and Robert F. McGowan

...graduate to studio features. The cast most familiar from the television package coalesces around 1934: George McFarland (Spanky), Matthew Beard (Stymie), Carl Switzer (Alfalfa), Billie Thomas (Buckwheat), Darla Hood. But it's also around...

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...the characters to reach some kind of closure. Like objective therapists, viewers can watch the timid and sensitive 14-year-old boy (Matthew Beard) beginning to hate his father as he slowly changes from the infallible man he used to look up...

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