Bobby Hutchins

Robert E. "Bobby" Hutchins (born March 29, 1925 in Tacoma , Washington , USA , † May 17, 1945 in Merced , California ) was an American film actor .

Life

Little is known about the origins of Bobby Hutchins. According to Jackie Cooper , his fellow actor with The Little Rascals, Hutchins was raised by a strict father who wanted to make his son a star under all circumstances and therefore allegedly even hit him. His father also forbade the boy from contact with other children. At the age of two, Hutchins was in front of the camera in 1927 for the 20-minute silent film Baby Brother by the little rascals . Under the nickname Wheezer , who inferred his stormy temperament on the film set, Hutchins soon became one of the most popular members of the Little Rascals and made the transition to talkies there in the late 1920s . He then stood in front of the camera in 85 episodes of The Little Rascals until he was eight, until his time with the Little Rascals ended in 1933 with Mush and Milk .

He then only made the short film Pie for Two (1933) before he retired from the film business when he was only eight years old. After their parents' divorce, Hutchins moved with his mother from California back to Washington State, where Hutchins attended school in his native Tacoma and graduated from college in 1943 .

In August of the same year, he enlisted in the United States Army , but was used most of the time in the office. There was no active participation in combat operations overseas. In 1944, Hutchins began his pilot training and was stationed in Merced, California. During his last flight lesson, on May 17, 1945, the catastrophe occurred when Hutchins, who was already sitting alone in his cockpit at that time , crashed into Merced airport with his Martin B-26 . The 20-year-old Hutchins was dead on the spot. His body was then transferred to Seattle , where he is buried today.

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personal data
SURNAME	Hutchins, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hutchins, Robert E. (real name); Wheezer (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tacoma , Washington , USA
DATE OF DEATH	May 17, 1945
Place of death	Merced , California