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From: "Dann Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2005 7:23:29 PM US/Pacific
In case you missed this, we lost another one....
Thomas Ross Bond
, who played Butch the bully in the Our Gang and The Little Rascals
serials of the 1930s, has died. He was 79. Bond died September 24 of
complications from heart disease. Bond played a member of the Gang
named Tommy. After his first year he was dropped from the cast but
returned later in the role of Butch, the archenemy of Alfalfa. Bond
appeared in dozens of Our Gang and Little Rascals features before
outgrowing the role. In the 1940s, Bond played Jimmy Olsen in two
Superman movies and appeared as Joey Pepper in several installments of
the Five Little Peppers serial. In 1951, Bond quit acting and went
into television directing and production work before retiring in 1991.
Forwarded from Dana Chick
