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Louis Charles "B. W." Stevenson (October 5, 1949 – April 28, 1988) [2] (originally known as Buckwheat Stevenson) was an American country pop singer and musician, working in a genre now called progressive country. "B.
Billie Thomas first appeared in the 1934 Our Gang shorts For Pete's Sake!, The First Round-Up, and Washee Ironee as a background player. The "Buckwheat" character was a girl at this time, portrayed by Our Gang kid Matthew "Stymie" Beard's younger sister Carlena in For Pete's Sake!, and by Willie Mae Walton in three other shorts.
The character was also the central focus of a series of sketches called "Who Shot Buckwheat?", which parodied the then-recent TV coverage of assassinations and attempted assassinations of public figures, such as the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan and the murder of John Lennon, as well as the "Who Shot J.R.?" storyline on the ...
Ross played Buckwheat. The rambunctious (but cute) 5-year-old was a favorite on set, and the cast all remember him always making up songs. (Two of them actually made it into the film.)
Where There's Smoke There's Fire is an album by the American musician Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 1990. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Zydeco and his band, Ils Sont Partis, supported the album with a North American tour. [ 3 ]
Robert Carlin Donahue Jr. (August 16, 1951 – October 14, 2019), better known as "Buckwheat" Donahue, was an American folklorist, storyteller, entertainer, historian, adventurer, and four-time gold-panning champion, [1] best known for his involvement in many different aspects of life in Alaska's Inside Passage. Although known for his time in ...
Bagley also portrayed Buckwheat in the feature film adaptation of 1994 of The Little Rascals, [1] and along with his Fresh Prince co star Will Smith he appeared in the film Independence Day (1996). Just months after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ended, he appeared on the Children's Tylenol commercial.
Edward Cowley is a New Zealand-Samoan entertainer and fa'afafine. [1]As a drag queen called Buckwheat (after the Our Gang character), Cowley has thirty years experience on the Auckland entertainment scene, [2] including national television, [3] events with national politicians, [4] hosting an annual flight from New Zealand to the Sydney Mardi Gras and been party to a high-profile media ...