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William Robert Laughlin (July 5, 1932 – August 31, 1948) was an American child actor. He is best known for playing the character Froggy in the Our Gang short films from 1940 to 1944, the films′ final years of production.
Surprised Parties is a 1942 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn and starring George McFarland, Billie Thomas, Mickey Gubitosi, Billy Laughlin, and Janet Burston. It was the 206th Our Gang short to be released.
Radio Bugs was the third-to-last Our Gang shorts produced. It marks the directorial debut Cyril Endfield.The three Endfield-directed shorts — Radio Bugs, Dancing Romeo and Tale of a Dog — were all shot in late 1943, and released within two weeks of each other in April 1944.
Billy Laughlin as Froggy (joined in 1940, replaced Alfalfa in 1941) Janet Burston (made guest appearances from 1940 until she replaced Darla in 1942) 1942–1944
The characters in this series are well-known cultural icons, and identified solely by their first names. The characters of Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky, Darla, Froggy, Butch, Woim, and Waldo were especially well known. Like many child actors, the Our Gang children were typecast and had trouble outgrowing their Our Gang images.
With Billy "Froggy" Laughlin and Janet Burston. 193 191 Goin' Fishin' Edward Cahn October 26 With Paul Hurst. Filmed in between The New Pupil and Good Bad Boys; 194 194 Kiddie Kure: Edward Cahn November 23 With Thurston Hall. Final appearance of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer. Billy "Froggy" Laughlin now promoted as a main player. Leonard does not appear.
Calling All Kids finds the gang invading a local radio station to perform a revue honoring the U.S. military. Amidst such highlights as a "recruiting office" sketch featuring the duo of Mickey and Froggy, and a closing ensemble piece with lyrics that rhyme "Taxes" with "Axis," the film features an extended celebrity-impression routine, with Buckwheat imitating Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and ...
Froggy the Gremlin, on the Buster Brown Gang radio show and Andy's Gang TV show in the 1940s and 1950s; Froggy, an Our Gang film character played by Billy Laughlin; Froggy, in Russell Banks's novel Rule of the Bone "Froggy" LeSueur, in The Foreigner; Froggy (Sonic the Hedgehog character), a frog in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games