Wally Albright

Wally Albright

Born: September 3, 1925
Died: August 7, 1999
in Burbank, California, USA
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Wally Albright (September 3, 1925 – August 7, 1999) was an American former child actor.

Albright was born Walton Algernon Albright, Jr. in Burbank, California. He appeared in a number of films during his career, and is notable for appearing in six Our Gang short subjects throughout the early 1930s. Though his tenure with the gang was brief, his role was usually that of the gang leader, alongside Matthew "Stymie" Beard.

Albright played so many roles as a baby that he was quite well known by the time he was three. He appeared in small parts of various films made by Hal Roach Studios. At the end of 1933, when Gus Meins took over directing, Our Gang needed a few new characters. Several older Our Gangers left the series in the summer of 1933 including Dorothy DeBorba and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins. Wally would be one of several characters including Scotty Beckett and Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas to debut in 1934 in the Our Gang episode Hi Neighbor. Wally quickly became one of the bigger Our Gang stars. But much to the dismay of Hal Roach and director Gus Meins, Wally voluntarily left the gang and returned to a normal childhood life. However, Albright did play a small role in John Ford's version of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," appearing as an older child in the migrant camp. He watches as Ma Joad cooks a stew for her family and tells her, "Me and my brother, we et good." Another child later tells Ma he was lying. "I peeked through their window last night and they was eatin' fried dough, just like everybody else." He graduated high school and college as he entered adult life.

Movies for Wally Albright...

Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Title: Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Character: Wally
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.
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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Title: Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
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The Wild One
Title: The Wild One
Character: Cyclist (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1953
Type: Movie
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Office Boy
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Boy Who Bragged of Eating Chicken (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: Tommy Romero
Released: March 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.
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Boy Trouble
Title: Boy Trouble
Character: Boy
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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King of the Sierras
Title: King of the Sierras
Character: Sonny Blake
Released: December 11, 1938
Type: Movie
An unusual film in that it was composed of new film footage tacked onto an original film produced by M. H. Hoffman Sr. and Jr.,and never released because of the collapse and merger of the Hoffman's Liberty Company into the newly-formed Republic operation in mid-1935, and consequently has two different sets of actors and production crew members.
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Sons of the Legion
Title: Sons of the Legion
Character: Harold
Released: September 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]
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Roll Along, Cowboy
Title: Roll Along, Cowboy
Character: Danny Blake
Released: October 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Boy
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Super-Sleuth
Title: Super-Sleuth
Character: Child movie fan
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: Boy (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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What Price Vengeance
Title: What Price Vengeance
Character: Sandy MacNair
Released: May 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the police force, and he turns to a life of crime.
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The Woman I Love
Title: The Woman I Love
Character: Georges
Released: April 15, 1937
Type: Movie
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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Old Louisiana
Title: Old Louisiana
Character: Davey
Released: March 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Jasper (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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The Cowboy Star
Title: The Cowboy Star
Character: Jimmy Baker
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Orphan
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Waterfront Lady
Title: Waterfront Lady
Character: Mickey O'Flaherty
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Title: O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Character: Child
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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Washee Ironee
Title: Washee Ironee
Character: Waldo
Released: November 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help him clean up.
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The First Round-Up
Title: The First Round-Up
Character: Wally
Released: May 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.
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For Pete's Sake!
Title: For Pete's Sake!
Character: Wally
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
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Hi'–Neighbor!
Title: Hi'–Neighbor!
Character: Wally
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
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As the Earth Turns
Title: As the Earth Turns
Character: John
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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Mr. Skitch
Title: Mr. Skitch
Character: Little Ira
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
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Smoky
Title: Smoky
Character: Clint's Son
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Rodeo star forms a strong bond with the noble horse he took from the wilds and trained. Unfortunately, they end up on different life paths and are separated. When at last they are reunited, the cowboy is appalled to discover that Smoky has become a broken down cart horse with an appointment at the local abattoir. Fortunately the cowboy intervenes and saves the horse from death
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Mischa Feldermans (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: Young Boy
Released: July 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
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Zoo in Budapest
Title: Zoo in Budapest
Character: Paul Vandor
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
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End of the Trail
Title: End of the Trail
Character: Jimmy 'Sonny' Travers
Released: December 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Framed by Major Jenkins, Capt. Travers is kicked out of the Army. When Travers, now living with the Indians, is captured by Jenkins, the Indians attack the fort. With his men greatly outnumbered Colonel Burke realizes that Travers is their only chance.
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The Conquerors
Title: The Conquerors
Character: Roger Standish, Jr.
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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Thirteen Women
Title: Thirteen Women
Character: Bobby Stanhope
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
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Choo-Choo!
Title: Choo-Choo!
Character: Wally (orphan)
Released: May 7, 1932
Type: Movie
The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
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The Silver Lining
Title: The Silver Lining
Character: Bobby O'Brien
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
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Law of the Sea
Title: Law of the Sea
Character: Cole Andrews (as child)
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
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Salvation Nell
Title: Salvation Nell
Character: Jimmy
Released: July 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: William as a Boy
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
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The Prodigal
Title: The Prodigal
Character: Peter
Released: February 21, 1931
Type: Movie
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
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Paper Hanging with Johnny Arthur
Title: Paper Hanging with Johnny Arthur
Released: April 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A penny-pinching house-holder attempts to put up wallpaper without professional help.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Jack Merrick
Released: November 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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The Single Standard
Title: The Single Standard
Character: Arden's son
Released: July 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
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Going Ga-Ga
Title: Going Ga-Ga
Character: Little Boy
Released: January 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.