Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas (William Thomas Jr.) was born on 12 March, 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA, is an Actor, Soundtrack. Discover Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas networth?

Popular AsWilliam Thomas Jr.
Occupationactor,soundtrack
Age49 years old
Zodiac SignPisces
Born12 March, 1931
Birthday12 March
BirthplaceLos Angeles, California, USA
Date of death10 October, 1980
Died PlaceLos Angeles, California, USA
NationalityUSA

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Things didn't go well for the other Our Gang members. Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer was shot dead age 31, Darla Hood contracted hepatitis in hospital and died aged 47, Robert 'Bobby' Blake was tried and acquitted of his wife's murder, Tommy Bond and his wife were severely injured in a car crash in 1996 and Pete the Dog was fatally poisoned.

In 1990 the ABC program 20/20 (1978) was hoaxed into believing that Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas was alive and working as a grocery bagger in Tempe, Arizona. (Thomas actually died in 1980.) A segment broadcast October 5 with narrator Hugh Downs featured an impostor.

In the summer of 1980, surviving "Our Gang" cast members appeared in the second annual meeting of the fraternal organization the Sons of the Desert (named after a Laurel and Hardy film). Thomas received a spontaneous standing ovation by 500 fans, and cried in response.

On October 10, 1980, he suffered a heart attack and died. He was 49 years old. Thomas was survived by his son William Thomas Jr.

He served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956 and received both a National Defense Service Medal and a Good Conduct Medal. Following his discharge, Thomas was offered new acting roles but he rejected them. He viewed an acting career as "a rat race. . . with no security". Instead, he chose a more modest career as a film lab technician for the Technicolor corporation.

Thomas kept this new look--overalls, striped shirt, oversized shoes, and a large, unkempt Afro--for the duration of playing this role, until 1944. Thomas performed in "Our Gang" for 10 years.

The series' final film was "Dancing Romeo" (1944), and Thomas was 12 years old during its production. While Buckwheat became synonymous with the "pickaninny" stereotype of African-American children, Thomas himself was well-liked for being depicted as a playmate and equal to the white children of the series. "Our Gang" featured a desegregated cast during the Jim Crow Era.

By 1940 Thomas had outgrown his speech impediment, and Buckwheat started speaking clearly as well.

Thomas largely retired from acting following the 1940s.

During this time, he was only absent for a single film, "Feed 'em and Weep" (1938), because he was ill. His character was paired with that of Eugene "Porky" Lee: they were "the little kids" who outsmarted "the big kids": George "Spanky" McFarland and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer. As a young child, Thomas had a speech impediment; this was transferred to his character and used as a comic device.

Both Buckwheat and Porky spoke in "garbled dialogue" and pronounced "OK" as "O-tay!"The series' original short films were produced by Hal Roach Studios, but production was taken over by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1938.

From 1938 to 1944, MGM produced 52 "Our Gang" short films and Thomas was the only cast member to appear in all of them. He was the only holdover from the Hal Roach era to remain in the series until its end. Thomas' team-up with Eugene Lee ended when Lee was replaced by new cast member Robert Blake.

Buckwheat eventually became a more masculine character, and was first credited as male in "The Pinch Singer" (1936).

He gained an entirely-new costume for "Pay as You Exit" (1936), where he played a slave in search of a master.

With the short film "Mama's Little Pirate" (1935), Thomas became the third actor to portray the character "Buckwheat", who had at first been depicted as a bowed-pigtailed female character at first, portrayed by Carlena Beard (1929-1972) and Willie Mae Walton (1918-2018); Thomas was effectively cross-dressing for the role.

Billie Thomas was an African-American child actor who was best-known for appearing in the "Our Gang" film series from 1934 to its end in 1944. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Thomas auditioned for an "Our Gang" role when he was three years old.

He was cast as a background player in the short films "For Pete's Sake!", "The First Round-Up", and "Washee Ironee", all from 1934.

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