Matthew Beard

Matthew Beard

Birthday: 1925-01-01

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, United States

Biography: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard was born on January 1, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Matthew Beard Jr. He was an actor, known for Jezebel (1938), School's Out (1930) and The Kid from Borneo (1933). He died on January 8, 1981 in Los Angeles.

Movies

Honky Donkey
Honky Donkey

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule....

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Fish Hooky
Fish Hooky

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him....

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The Our Gang Story
The Our Gang Story

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed s...

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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Our Gang - Comedy Festival

Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty...

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Captain Blood
Captain Blood

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate....

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Disco 9000
Disco 9000

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music...

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Outside These Walls
Outside These Walls

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After se...

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths...

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Wild Poses
Wild Poses

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer....

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Mike Fright
Mike Fright

The gang attends a radio station amateur show....

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Free Wheeling
Free Wheeling

Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck....

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Mush and Milk
Mush and Milk

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park....

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Birthday Blues
Birthday Blues

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present....

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The Beloved Brat
The Beloved Brat

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club ...

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Grand Jury
Grand Jury

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to...

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Two-Gun Man from Harlem
Two-Gun Man from Harlem

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a ...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Going Hollywood: The '30s

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...

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Kid Millions
Kid Millions

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has ...

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Broken Strings
Broken Strings

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes...

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Camp Meetin'
Camp Meetin'

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. T...

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Hallelujah
Hallelujah

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man....

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The Cracked Ice Man
The Cracked Ice Man

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher....

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Beginner's Luck
Beginner's Luck

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night....

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Fly My Kite
Fly My Kite

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers s...

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The First Round-Up
The First Round-Up

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is th...

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Helping Grandma
Helping Grandma

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids t...

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Little Daddy
Little Daddy

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage....

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School's Out
School's Out

The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brothe...

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Love Business
Love Business

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house....

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Teacher's Pet
Teacher's Pet

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher....

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Show Boat
Show Boat

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. ...

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Dogs Is Dogs
Dogs Is Dogs

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son....

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The Great Man Votes
The Great Man Votes

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to...

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Way Down South
Way Down South

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his sl...

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Swanee River
Swanee River

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls ...

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Kentucky
Kentucky

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...

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Rainbow on the River
Rainbow on the River

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in...

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Big Ears
Big Ears

Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting....

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Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his ...

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Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse

A behind the scenes look at Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies, complete with interviews from several for...

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Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the...

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Mama's Little Pirate
Mama's Little Pirate

The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave....

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Washee Ironee
Washee Ironee

Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his...

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Anniversary Trouble
Anniversary Trouble

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's mone...

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The Return of Frank James
The Return of Frank James

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords....

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Pray TV
Pray TV

A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of m...

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Dead Reckoning
Dead Reckoning

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for thei...

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Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around t...

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The Stolen Jools
The Stolen Jools

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...

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Jezebel
Jezebel

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car...

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Forgotten Babies
Forgotten Babies

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting....

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A Lad an' a Lamp
A Lad an' a Lamp

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp....

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Hearts in Dixie
Hearts in Dixie

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community....

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The Little Rascals' Christmas Special
The Little Rascals' Christmas Special

Spanky and Porky try to figure out a way to get their mother a winter coat for Christmas after she b...

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My Best Girl
My Best Girl

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, an...

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Hi'–Neighbor!
Hi'–Neighbor!

The gang decides to build their own fire engine....

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Hook and Ladder
Hook and Ladder

The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire....

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Readin' and Writin'
Readin' and Writin'

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled....

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For Pete's Sake!
For Pete's Sake!

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne....

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Bedtime Worries
Bedtime Worries

Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own ...

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Shrimps for a Day
Shrimps for a Day

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage...

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Shiver My Timbers
Shiver My Timbers

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain....

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The Pooch
The Pooch

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher....

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Choo-Choo!
Choo-Choo!

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride....

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Belle Starr
Belle Starr

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam...

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Spanky
Spanky

While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."...

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The Burning Cross
The Burning Cross

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another ...

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Slave Ship
Slave Ship

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again...

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A Day at Santa Anita
A Day at Santa Anita

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence ...

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Four Parts
Four Parts

Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts....

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It's Good to Be Alive
It's Good to Be Alive

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life i...

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Penrod and Sam
Penrod and Sam

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out....

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Bargain Day
Bargain Day

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl....

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Free Eats
Free Eats

The kids help capture a family of thieves....

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Reunion in Rhythm
Reunion in Rhythm

The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids....

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The Kid from Borneo
The Kid from Borneo

The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believin...

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Rascal Dazzle
Rascal Dazzle

The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jer...

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Truck Turner
Truck Turner

Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hire...

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The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)

Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fa...

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The Buddy Holly Story
The Buddy Holly Story

A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play musi...

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The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Prisoner of Shark Island

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of Presid...

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Teacher's Beau
Teacher's Beau

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married....

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The Littlest Rebel
The Littlest Rebel

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife a...

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The First Woman President
The First Woman President

This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wi...

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