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- Birth nameJohn Reuben Patterson
- Pat McCall was born to J.W. Patterson, a civil engineer, and Margaret McCall a movie publicist for Fox Studios. When his mother and father separated in 1935, his mother, acting as his agent, worked to get him parts in movies using the name Pat McCall. Pat worked as an extra from about 1935 to about 1945, almost always in the background when groups of children were needed in a scene. According to the account books left by Margaret, he was paid for at least 50 movies, though it is not clear whether he actually made the final cut in all of them. He can be seen in the party scene for "the Littlest Rebel" with Shirley Temple and had a substantial part in "Pepper" with Jane Withers.
- IMDb mini biography by: J. Micheal Patterson
- The name Pat McCall was a combination of his family nickname and the maiden name of his mother Margaret McCall.
- Pat McCall's mother, Margaret McCall, wrote a monthly column in "Children's Playmate Magazine" in which Pat McCall interviewed child actors with the help of his "Aunt Peggy". Over the years he was pictured in the magazine talking to celebrities like Shirley Temple, Dickie Moore, the Chaplin children and members of the "Our Gang" comedies.
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