Biography:
The son of a Los Angeles minister, three-year-old Matthew Beard won out of 350 kids to replace Allen "Farina" Hoskins as the resident black child in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies. Nicknamed Hercules in his first two-reeler, Teacher's Pet (1930), Beard was thereafter known as Stymie because of his innocent offscreen habit ... Continue Bio >>

Filmography:
1981 East of Eden
1979 Backstairs at the White House
1979 The Little Rascals Christmas Special
1978 The Buddy Holly Story
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