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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 22, 2011 20:50:00 GMT -5
I started watching Wheeler and Woolsey's 1936 film "Silly Billies" and was surprised to find Delmar Watson, Tommy Bond, and Jerry Tucker. Interesting how many Our Gang kids worked with Bert and Bob.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Feb 23, 2011 12:50:01 GMT -5
Delmar Watson seemed to do a lot of outside film work with other Our Gang actors, as was also the case for Tommy Bupp.
I don't think it's been mentioned yet in this thread that Dickie Moore and Sonny Bupp were both in Sergeant York, the 1941 Warner Bros. movie. I haven't seen the film, but judging from the year of its release I would guess that Dickie Moore was probably a young teenager at the time of shooting, maybe thirteen or fourteen years of age.
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Post by dadat231 on May 3, 2011 21:33:12 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this thread while it was going. I have a question and hope someone might be able to help. Are there any Wally Albright fans here? I watched Brando's The Wild One the other day specifically because Wally is supposedly one of the bikers in the movie. I did a lot of slow motion whenever the bikers were on the screen without any luck. Does anyone know if he's actually in it?
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Post by imnotallenhoskins on May 3, 2011 23:44:53 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this thread while it was going. I have a question and hope someone might be able to help. Are there any Wally Albright fans here? I watched Brando's The Wild One the other day specifically because Wally is supposedly one of the bikers in the movie. I did a lot of slow motion whenever the bikers were on the screen without any luck. Does anyone know if he's actually in it? I doubt that Wally Albright from Our Gang appeared in that film. Prior to that, his acting career was spent entirely as a child and as a teen. His last credit was from 1942 (when he was seventeen.) It doesn't seem likely that he would re-emerge 11 years later, at the age of 28, to just make two movies. Of course, maybe it is him.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on May 4, 2011 0:01:15 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this thread while it was going. I have a question and hope someone might be able to help. Are there any Wally Albright fans here? I watched Brando's The Wild One the other day specifically because Wally is supposedly one of the bikers in the movie. I did a lot of slow motion whenever the bikers were on the screen without any luck. Does anyone know if he's actually in it? Wally Albright is one of my top ten or fifteen favorite Gangsters, but I don't know for sure if he appeared in this movie. He most likely would have been in his mid-twenties when taping commenced, so positively identifying him as Wally based on looks might be a difficult task. I haven't read anything specific in any of Wally Albright's online bios about him having been in The Wild One; he was credited for the movie on IMDB, though, and I've heard that he made some film appearances into the 1950s; also, Wally Albright isn't quite as common a name as one like Jack Davis, so confusion of multiple IMDB profile pages' information probably isn't as likely in this instance. Therefore, I figure there's a good chance that Wally Albright was in The Wild One. As is the case with Bobby Young's reported small part in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, though, it might be hard to authoritatively recognize Wally Albright so many years after his stint with The Gang.
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Post by bigshotjones on May 4, 2011 19:53:10 GMT -5
I found an article in Google News Archives that said that Wally and Carey Loftin would perform some stunts in "The Wild One," but that doesn't mean that they have any face time. Having said that, there is one cyclist visible early in the film that might be Wally, but I don't have any contemporary photos for comparison.
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Post by dadat231 on May 16, 2011 19:16:05 GMT -5
Thanks mickeyg and bigshot. I will look at the beginning of The Wild One again to see and anyone has a facial resemblence. I guess I'm on a Wally Albright kick recently. Hope you folks don't mind indulging me here. I watched O'Shaunessy's Boy because he's also supposedly in it. I found a kid who sounds like him although I couldn't see his face. While looking for him in this film, I found George Billings and Jackie Lynn Taylor in very small bits. Wally is billed, in IMDb, as being in Gypsy Colt which TCM is playing this month. I'll be checking that as well.
By the way, Bobby 'Bonedust' Young does have a very small role in Treasure of Sierra Madre as a flophouse bum. I believe he has one small line, but he is indeed in it.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on May 16, 2011 22:16:06 GMT -5
Thanks mickeyg and bigshot. I will look at the beginning of The Wild One again to see and anyone has a facial resemblence. I guess I'm on a Wally Albright kick recently. Hope you folks don't mind indulging me here. I watched O'Shaunessy's Boy because he's also supposedly in it. I found a kid who sounds like him although I couldn't see his face. While looking for him in this film, I found George Billings and Jackie Lynn Taylor in very small bits. Wally is billed, in IMDb, as being in Gypsy Colt which TCM is playing this month. I'll be checking that as well. By the way, Bobby 'Bonedust' Young does have a very small role in Treasure of Sierra Madre as a flophouse bum. I believe he has one small line, but he is indeed in it. The last time that I watched O'Shaughnessy's Boy, I was able to recognize Wally Albright in his part. His hair was what initially made him easy to spot for me; those distinctive blonde, loose non-curls often set him apart from the other actors of his age group, visually speaking. I have no compelling reason to doubt that Bobby Young (acting under the name Clifton Young) was in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; I would think it nearly impossible to identify him in his very small role by sight alone, though. Not only is he much older than when he was a supporting star in Our Gang, but I've never even been positive which "Flophouse Bum" is which, and we never get an especially good look at any of them.
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Post by rhapsody on May 17, 2011 23:14:12 GMT -5
Well, if ever you do get a good look at one of the bums, here's a good picture of Bonedust with Bogart in 1947's Dark Passage.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on May 18, 2011 0:54:34 GMT -5
While I wouldn't have been able to recognize the guy in the picture as the grown-up Bobby Young without some prompting, I'd have to say that he does look more or less the way one might expect him to look more than fifteen years after his final appearances with The Gang.
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Post by dadat231 on May 28, 2011 20:31:05 GMT -5
Has anyone ever seen Gypsy Colt with Donna Corcran(sp?) and Ward Bond? Well, Wally Labright is also supposedly in this one. I think I actually found him this time. His hair was dark and he was almost 30, but the facial fatures wer pretty similar.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on May 28, 2011 22:23:04 GMT -5
I've never seen Gypsy Colt, though I know Donna Corcoran as one of the six Corcoran acting siblings, and I recall Ward Bond from the television western Wagon Train.
I'd imagine that Wally Albright was likely twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old when Gypsy Colt was filmed. At that age, I don't think that I would ever be able to identify him in the movie unless I knew to look specifically for a secondary character named Don.
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Post by dadat231 on May 29, 2011 12:23:09 GMT -5
If you ever get the chance to see it, and remember, the guy I think is Wally is one of 4 bikers who have a scene in a highway diner. As they are looking out the window at the horse going by, 3 of the guys are in the frame and he is on the left. I don't think anybody called him Don, but that is what's listed in IMDb. I don't think anyone else in the film could hae been him.
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Post by dadat231 on Jun 2, 2011 21:52:30 GMT -5
Stymie has one line and 3 scenes in The Great Man Votes. Watched it tonight. Waldo is also in it in and has one brief scene with some dialogue.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jun 2, 2011 23:57:59 GMT -5
If you ever get the chance to see it, and remember, the guy I think is Wally is one of 4 bikers who have a scene in a highway diner. As they are looking out the window at the horse going by, 3 of the guys are in the frame and he is on the left. I don't think anybody called him Don, but that is what's listed in IMDb. I don't think anyone else in the film could hae been him. I'll look for the scene when I get the chance to watch the movie some day. I'm sure that I'll find it airing on Turner Classic Movies one of these days. It's interesting that Wally Albright's character apparently isn't referred to as Don on-screen in the film. Perhaps, then, Don was only a paper name, like "Slim" and "Deadpan" were for Harold Switzer in the Our Gang shorts.
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