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- Birth nameWarren Lindle Wade
- Warren Lindle Wade. Nickname "Lindy" derived from his middle name.
A good friend of both Spanky and Alfalfa of Our Gang comedy series. His family and Alfalfa's took the kids to Hollywood from their Midwest hometown and Lindy started out doing extra work on the Our Gang set.
Concerns about World War II and a rumored West Coast invasion led his parents to pull the budding young star out of Hollywood and back to the Midwest.
Wade went on to get a PhD in Education from UCLA, started the first public broadcast station in San Jose (KTEH Channel 54), and had a successful 36 year Reservist career with the US Navy with a final rank of Captain.
He has two children by his first wife, a boy and girl, and two adopted sons from his second marriage. He's blessed with a small passel of grandchildren.
- IMDb mini biography by: His son from his first marriage.
- The child actor was cast as Daniel Stone in the classic film The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941). While filming, however, he was injured along with actor Thomas Mitchell when Mitchell lost control of a horse-drawn carriage they were riding in and it crashed. Both were thrown from the carriage. Mitchell suffered a fractured skull and Edward Arnold was brought in to replace him. Lindy recovered quickly enough and continued in his film role.
- Without Art's counsel and guidance, in 1957, I would not have been admitted to Graduate School at UCLA...He led me first to the M.A. in Theater Arts, and next to the School of Education for my PhD.
- Art made major, career-long contributions that helped move the Theater Arts Department from the WWII tar paper barracks that I attended, 1957-59, into the state of the art theaters and studios of the Melnitz complex.
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