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Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 [1] – May 10, 1968) was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later costarred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger . Early life and career
The Jolson Story is a 1946 American biographical musical film, a highly fictionalized account of the life of singer Al Jolson.It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as Julie Benson (approximating Jolson's wife, Ruby Keeler), William Demarest as his performing partner and manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson.
The series finally premiered the week of Monday, February 22, 1954, at various days and times on stations across the United States. Off-screen issues began almost immediately. In February 1954, Scotty Beckett was arrested for possessing a weapon after being implicated in an armed robbery at the Cavalier Hotel in Hollywood.
"By the time he died, I wasn't surprised," she admitted. "I was incredibly sad. I hadn’t heard from him in four days. They sent police officers to check on him, and then I was told, 'He's gone.'"
A sequel to For Pete's Sake! (which also featured William Wagner and Leonard Kibrick as a father/son villain team), The Lucky Corner was filmed and completed in mid-1935. . However, the short was withheld from release until March 1936, by which time Scotty Beckett, one of the principal Our Gang kids in the short, had departed the s
Scotty Beckett; Jackie Lynn Taylor; Marianne Edwards; Leonard Kibrick; Billie Thomas as Buckwheat (joined in 1934, became Matthew Beard (Stymie)'s replacement in 1935)
For the better part of the last six months, Beckett has been living in Tennessee at St. Jude's Hospital, battling ATRT brain cancer - a very rare, fast-growing tumour. Family of three-year-old ...
Scotty Beckett, Leonard Kibrick, Marianne Edwards, and Pete the Pup do not appear. Withdrawn from television package from the early 1970s to early 1980s due to racial humor involving African-Americans. The short was later reinstated, though edited heavily for the same reasons. 140 141 Our Gang Follies of 1936: Gus Meins November 30 With Dickie ...