# How many Little Rascals are still walking the earth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995 "2015-05-14T02:16:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/1 "2015-05-14T02:16:43Z")
I know Robert Blake is still breathing. Any others? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/2 "2015-05-14T06:39:10Z")
Considering Blake was in the last years of the Our Gang series, and he’s currently 83, I’d suspect he may be the only surviving member. Our Gang was produced by Hal Roach from 1922 - 1944. Blake was a notable member from 1939-1944. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/3 "2015-05-14T09:17:41Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Considering Blake was in the last years of the Our Gang series, and he’s currently 83, I’d suspect he may be the only surviving member. > > Our Gang was produced by Hal Roach from 1922 - 1944. Blake was a notable member from 1939-1944. Wikipedia says: > [@](#): > > As of December 2014, living Our Gang actors included Robert Blake, Sidney Kibrick, Jean Darling, Dickie Moore, Jerry Tucker, Lassie Lou Ahern, Mildred Kornman, and Leonard Landy. [Cite.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang#MGM_period) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/4 "2015-05-14T11:59:58Z")
Somewhat off-topic, but I was amazed when Hal Roach, who made the Our Gang/Little Rascals films, showed up on the Tonight Show just after his 100th birthday. He was bald but spry, looking and acting like a man literally half his age, and I had to wonder if there was some other Hal Roach around that I had somehow missed – this surely couldn’t be the same guy, on Jay Leno no less. But it was, He’d outlived most of his child stars. He died ten months later. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/5 "2015-05-14T12:58:11Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/6 "2015-05-14T13:27:47Z")
There are more names than that, but most of them were bit characters that you would have never heard of. The list above pretty much covers the regulars. And at least one (Scooter Lowry) has disappeared completely, so even though he’s probably deceased, so far there’s no confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/7 "2015-05-14T13:29:21Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Wikipedia says: > > [Cite.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang#MGM_period) Good to hear. Looking at the ages that some of the other stars of the series lived to, seems pretty sad. Buckwheat died at 49, heart attack Alfalfa - 32, gunshot Darla - 47, hepatitis Stymie - 56, stroke Chubby - 21, heart failure Froggie - 16, truck accident ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/8 "2015-05-15T23:59:35Z")
I bet Robert Blake’s wife wishes he’d died young like some of the others. Anywho, I’d assume most of the kids from the movie adaptation are still alive, not that you’d get an argument from me if you claimed they weren’t real Little Rascals. Shit… just checking the date, that movie turns 21 this year… ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/9 "2015-05-16T02:12:06Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Good to hear. Looking at the ages that some of the other stars of the series lived to, seems pretty sad. > > Buckwheat died at 49, heart attack Not true. I have it on good authority that Buckwheat died March 12, 1983, of a [gunshot wound](http://www.hulu.com/watch/10389). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-little-rascals-are-still-walking-the-earth/719995/10 "2015-05-16T02:14:40Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Not true. I have it on good authority that Buckwheat died March 12, 1983, of a [gunshot wound](http://www.hulu.com/watch/10389). It’s true! I saw it live on TV!!! :eek: