- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJerome Harold Schatz
- Nickname
- Tucker
- As a youngster his cute round face and red hair made him popular in his neighbourhood. A Paramount film executive suggested he could have a film career so his family moved to Hollywood where in 1929 he became the youngest actor ever put under contract, at the age of 4, to Paramount. Soon after he was given the stage name of Jerry Tucker and immediately became famous at the studio for his ability to recite his lines from memory. He appeared in Our Gang films until 1937 when his final appearance was in Glove Taps. In 1934 he was one of the Our Gang kids to appear with Laurel and Hardy in 'Babes in Toyland'. Outside of the Gang films he worked with Buster Keaton in 'Sidewalks of New York', Clark Gable in 'San Francisco' and Shirley Temple in 'Captain January'. In 1939 he and his mother moved to New York where he auditioned for a number of radio programmes. In 1942 he joined the navy and was wounded when a Japanese kamikaze plane hit the destroyer U.S.S, Sigsbee which he was on. In 1944 he married Myra Heino and had two daughters, Karen Beth and Renee Eve. After the war he studied electrical engineering at college and was employed as an engineer for RCA Global Communications retiring in 1981 and living on Long Island, New York.- IMDb Mini Biography By: tonyman 5
- SpouseMyra K. Heino(1944 - August 2, 2012) (her death, 2 children)
- ChildrenKaren Beth TuckerRenee Eve Tucker
- ParentsLeonard SchatzRuth Schatz
- Served in a Navy submarine during World War II. Episodes of "The Little Rascals" were among the films aired for the men during his tour of duty, but none of the other men ever knew he was one of the actors.
- Copiague resident Jerry Schatz, a former child actor who appeared in several "Our Gang" comedies, often as a spoiled rich kid, and co-starred opposite such screen luminaries as Shirley Temple, Ginger Rogers and Laurel and Hardy, died Wednesday morning (23 November 2016) of natural causes at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook at age 91, his daughter Renee Schatz Wolf confirmed.
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/jerry-schatz-child-actor-in-our-gang-comedies-dies-at-91-1.12662062. - Retired in New York
- He got into the movies by reciting the poem "Gunga Din" from memory at the age of five before a huge crowd who were waiting for a boxer who failed to show up for his fight.
- Jerry resides in Copiague N. Y.
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