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As a youngster, his cute round face and red hair made him popular in his neighborhood. 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 four (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 programs. In 1942, he joined the navy and was wounded when a Japanese kamikaze plane hit the destroyer on which he was serving, the U.S.S. Sigsbee. 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.

Served in a Navy submarine during World War II. Episodes of &quot;The Little
Rascals&quot; 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 &quot;Our Gang&quot; 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.<br/><br/>http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/jerry-schatz-child-actor-in-our-gang-comedies-dies-at-91-1.12662062.

He got into the movies by reciting the poem &quot;Gunga Din&quot; 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. (December 2012)

He was born Jerome Harold Schatz, the son of Ruth (Keno) and Leonard Schatz. His family was of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.

Jerry Schatz served aboard destroyer USS Sigsbee (DD-502) during WWII. He received permanent injury to his leg during a kamikaze attack on April 14, 1945.

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