Gary Jasgur was an American

United States

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 former child actor

Child actor

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

, most notable for appearing as "Junior" in the Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short subjects series from 1937 to 1939. Jasgur was often cast as the younger, bothersome brother of Spanky

George McFarland

George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...

 and Alfalfa

Carl Switzer

Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...

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Jasgur left the film industry, as Marc Senseman put it, "before he knew he was in it". Gary was actually his middle name, and in high school Gary preferred to be called Mel. Jasgur married in 1956, and had four children and ten grandchildren. Jasgur died on August 22, 1994, at the age of 58.

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