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Post by morkfromork on Aug 17, 2014 11:59:38 GMT -5
When I was a kid, I attended a ventriloquist performance at a KOA campsite. This would have been circa 1973. The performer claimed that he was a former Our Gang cast member. I recall neither his name nor which character he said he played. Any idea who this might have been?
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Post by myhomeo on Aug 18, 2014 17:45:52 GMT -5
Gotta warn ya, there are a LOT of imposters out there who've claimed to be former Rascals and weren't. So it might be one of those.
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 19, 2014 11:08:04 GMT -5
It also could have been someone that appeared in a similar series. Our Gang had several rivals/ripoffs during the 1920s, none of which remained popular beyond their initial run in theaters. It would have been easy for a kid who showed up in one of these other series to grow up thinking they were in Our Gang. And it has happened more than once.
Sorry, though. I have no clue who this kid could have been.
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Post by morkfromork on Aug 20, 2014 10:12:41 GMT -5
This may be a false memory, but I vaguely recall him saying he had played the role of Porky. Did Eugene Lee ever work as a ventriloquist?
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Post by mtw12055 on Aug 20, 2014 10:27:45 GMT -5
This may be a false memory, but I vaguely recall him saying he had played the role of Porky. Did Eugene Lee ever work as a ventriloquist? Not sure. It could have been Don Marlowe, a con artist who for years claimed he was Porky (among other things). Even the Press fell for it. |
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Post by Buppster on Feb 26, 2018 16:59:30 GMT -5
Jackie Cooper famously played a ventriloquist in a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone called "Caesar And Me." 
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Post by jeff on Feb 10, 2019 1:39:46 GMT -5
I also saw a ventriloquist at an RV campground in San Antonio in the 70's that claimed to be one of the Little Rascals. His show was quite entertaining and he pulled my father from the audience to use as a human dummy. It was very funny. The reason I found this tread on this forum is I was searching tonight to try to determine which Little Rascal he was. He said he was the one that pouted all the time with his hands on both sides of his face. I don't remember which name he said though. I'm not sure if the campground was a KOA or not. Perhaps we were both at the same performance!
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Post by kritkpr on Feb 27, 2021 19:28:01 GMT -5
I also saw him at a koa in San Antonio in the 70s
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Post by dchord568 on Feb 28, 2021 1:24:37 GMT -5
Almost surely an Our Gang imposter (or, charitably, someone who thought he was in Our Gang but was actually in another series).
The adult lives of all but the most obscure, one- or two-episode Our Gangsters have been pretty thoroughly documented by now. None of their résumés, to my knowledge, contains anything about them working as a ventriloquist.
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