Jack Hanlon, actor in Our Gang films, dies in US
RENO, Nevada – Jack Hanlon, who had roles in the 1926 silent classic “The General” and in two 1927 “Our Gang” comedies, died Thursday in Las Vegas at the age of 96.
His niece, Wendy Putnam Park of Las Vegas, said the precocious, freckle-faced Hanlon was a natural as a child actor from 1926 to 1933.
After a small role with Buster Keaton in “The General,” he played mischievous kids in two of Hal Roach’s “Our Gang/Little Rascals” films: “The Glorious Fourth” and “Olympic Games.”
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Hanlon also played an orphan in the 1929 drama “The Shakedown,” and got an on-screen kiss from Greta Garbo in the 1930 film “Romance.”
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After leaving Hollywood, Hanlon became a furniture mover and moved to Las Vegas in 1994.
Burial will be in Santa Monica, California.
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