Jerry Tucker

Jerry Tucker was born on Nov 01, 1925 in USA. Jerry Tucker's big-screen debut came with Sidewalks of New York directed by Zion Myers in 1931, strarring Little Boy Sitting on Curb (uncredited). Jerry Tucker is known for Tovarich directed by Anatole Litvak, Claudette Colbert stars as Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov and Charles Boyer as Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff. The upcoming new movie Jerry Tucker plays is The Man Who Dared which will be released on Jun 03, 1939.

As a youngster his cute round face and red hair made him popular in his neighbourhood. 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 4, 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 programmes. In 1942 he joined the navy and was wounded when a Japanese kamikaze plane hit the destroyer U.S.S, Sigsbee which he was on. 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.