Carl Switzer skyrocketed to fame as freckle-faced Alfalfa in the "Our Gang" series – but it wouldn’t be a wonderful life for the actor. At age 31, the former child star was killed in a fight ...

The slick-haired, freckle-faced star of The Little Rascals TV series struggled to find acting work as an adult. At 19 he moved to the Central Valley to become a professional bear hunter. “He was more ...

Betsy Gay, one of the stars from the iconic Our Gang comedy films of the 1930s, later called The Little Rascals, has died at age 96. Gay, whose married surname was Cashen, died in Bakersfield, CA, on ...

GRAND ISLAND — Carl W. Switzer, 87, of Grand Island, passed away at his home on Sunday, July 23, 2023. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 27, 2023, at All Faiths Funeral Home. Dan Naranjo will ...

One of the first questions New York author Adrienne Troise encountered in Illinois when telling people about her book was, “You’re writing a whole book just about hay?” But the “Alfalfa” that Troise ...

The small town of Paris, Ill., is the birthplace of Carl Switzer, the late actor who played the iconic Alfalfa in the “Little Rascals” series, and Brett Eldredge, the country music singer whose ...

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer was born on August 7, 1927 in Paris, Illinois, USA as Carl Dean Switzer. He was an actor, known for The Defiant Ones (1958), Our Gang Follies of 1938(1937) and I Love You Again ...