Actor | Soundtrack. Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer was born on August 7, 1927 in Paris, Illinois, USA as Carl Dean Switzer. He was an actor, known for The Defiant Ones (1958), Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937) and I Love You Again (1940). He was married to Dian Collingwood. He died on January 21, 1959 in Mission Hills, California, USA.
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Switzer played Alfalfa from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s. In 1955, the Our Gang films were turned into a hugely popular TV series called The Little Rascals; however, Switzer never received any royalties from the show.
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Edit. He also made an appearance in the Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life, opening up the gymnasium floor with the pool underneath, causing George and Mary to fall in. Official site of Carl Alfalfa Switzer's biographer, Joan L. Collins.
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Between 1935, when he was eight years old, and 1942, when the no-longer-concealable end of adolescence ended his participation in the still-popular series, Carl W. Switzer played his Alfalfa role in 60 Our Gang shorts for Hal Roach.
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Hollywood, Jan. 22 - (UPI) - A murder complaint was filed today in the death of Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer, freckle-faced member of the Our Gang movie series, who was shot to death last night.
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The Switzer brothers were signed by Hal Roach and Carl was cast as Alfalfa in the Our Gang series, which Roach began producing as silent films in the early 1920s. Our Gang revolved around a group of ragtag children and their adventures.
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Mr. Switzer, 32 years old, knows as Alfalfa, was famed for his role in the Our Gang comedy films of a generation ago. They now are on television. Mr. Switzer was a bit player in recent years.
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Publisher. A+E Networks. Carl Dean Switzer, the actor who as a child played “Alfalfa” in the Our Gang comedy film series, dies at age 31 in a fight, allegedly about money, in a Mission Hills, California, home.
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD Calif. Jan. 21 (AP) - Carl Switzer, freckle-faced Alfalfa of the Our Gang comedy series, was shot and killed tonight by a friend in an apparent argument over money, the police said.
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1 Bud Stiltz claimed that Alfalfa threw a knife at him across the room. 2  Alfalfa was shot by Bud Stiltz in the stomach, and died. 3  Bud Stiltz claimed that Alfalfa, after being shot in the stomach, closed the knife before he fell.
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