Matthew Beard
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard was born on January 1, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Matthew Beard Jr. He was an actor, known for Jezebel (1938), School's Out (1930) and The Kid from Borneo (1933). He died on January 8, 1981 in Los Angeles.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.377 |
| Birthday | 1925-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, United States |
| Also Known As | Matthew Beard Jr., Stymie Beard, Stymie, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard , |
1933
Bedtime Worries
7.2/2
Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.
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Bedtime Worries
1945
Fallen Angel
6.396/106
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...
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Fallen Angel
1935
Captain Blood
7.231/221
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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Captain Blood
1976
Disco 9000
3.8/4
Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses becaus...
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Disco 9000
1933
Wild Poses
7.8/9
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
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Wild Poses
1934
Mike Fright
5.8/4
The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
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Mike Fright
1933
Mush and Milk
6.8/4
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
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Mush and Milk
1932
Birthday Blues
6.5/4
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
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Birthday Blues
1932
Free Wheeling
7.8/4
Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
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Free Wheeling
1936
Grand Jury
7/1
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and...
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Grand Jury
1938
The Beloved Brat
6.4/8
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his busin...
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The Beloved Brat
1938
Two-Gun Man from Harlem
4.5/6
A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He in...
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Two-Gun Man from Harlem
1940
Broken Strings
4.5/8
After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing mus...
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Broken Strings
1936
Camp Meetin'
0/0
Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in orde...
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Camp Meetin'
1929
Hallelujah
6.5/26
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
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Hallelujah
1934
The Cracked Ice Man
0/0
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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The Cracked Ice Man
1929
Show Boat
5/2
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's boo...
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Show Boat
1935
Beginner's Luck
7/4
Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
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Beginner's Luck
1931
Fly My Kite
7/5
A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.
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Fly My Kite
1934
The First Round-Up
6.5/6
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...
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The First Round-Up
1931
Love Business
6.9/5
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
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Love Business
1930
School's Out
6.889/9
The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit, t...
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School's Out
1931
Helping Grandma
6.8/6
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
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Helping Grandma
1930
Teacher's Pet
7.2/8
Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
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Teacher's Pet
1931
Little Daddy
7/6
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
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Little Daddy
1939
The Great Man Votes
6.1/6
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...
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The Great Man Votes
1939
Way Down South
5.4/5
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated...
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Way Down South
1939
Swanee River
0/1
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t...
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Swanee River
1938
Kentucky
5.2/8
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...
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Kentucky
1936
Rainbow on the River
9/1
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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Rainbow on the River
1984
Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
0/0
A behind the scenes look at Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies, complete with interviews from several former cast and crew members of the series.
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Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
1943
Stormy Weather
6.9/39
Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer...
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Stormy Weather
1935
Anniversary Trouble
6.5/2
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.
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Anniversary Trouble
1934
Washee Ironee
6.8/5
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 hi...
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Washee Ironee
1934
Mama's Little Pirate
7.3/3
The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.
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Mama's Little Pirate
1940
The Return of Frank James
6.3/121
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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The Return of Frank James
1947
Dead Reckoning
6.7/131
Sergeant Johnny Drake runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy Captain 'Rip' Murdock gets permission to investigate, and love an...
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Dead Reckoning
1931
The Stolen Jools
5.8/26
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tubercu...
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The Stolen Jools
1938
Jezebel
7.073/185
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Jezebel
1979
The Little Rascals' Christmas Special
6/1
Spanky and Porky try to figure out a way to get their mother a winter coat for Christmas after she buys them a Blue Comet electric train.
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The Little Rascals' Christmas Special
1929
Hearts in Dixie
3/0
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
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Hearts in Dixie
1927
My Best Girl
7.1/17
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his fathe...
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My Best Girl
1932
Hook and Ladder
7.2/4
The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.
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Hook and Ladder
1934
Hi'–Neighbor!
7.9/7
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
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Hi'–Neighbor!
1932
Readin' and Writin'
6.2/4
Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.
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Readin' and Writin'
1934
For Pete's Sake!
7.7/3
The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
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For Pete's Sake!
1941
Belle Starr
5.6/15
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breakin...
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Belle Starr
1931
Shiver My Timbers
6.5/2
The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.
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Shiver My Timbers
1934
Shrimps for a Day
7/2
A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
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Shrimps for a Day
1932
The Pooch
6.5/2
The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
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The Pooch
1932
Choo-Choo!
6.7/3
The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
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Choo-Choo!
1932
Spanky
6/2
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."
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Spanky
1947
The Burning Cross
5/1
Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have...
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The Burning Cross
1937
Slave Ship
5.3/5
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Slave Ship
1937
A Day at Santa Anita
5/1
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
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A Day at Santa Anita
1934
Four Parts
0/0
Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
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Four Parts
1974
It's Good to Be Alive
6.6/4
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...
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It's Good to Be Alive
1935
The Littlest Rebel
6.3/29
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and se...
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The Littlest Rebel
1937
Penrod and Sam
6/1
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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Penrod and Sam
1931
Bargain Day
6/2
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
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Bargain Day
1932
Free Eats
6.8/4
The kids help capture a family of thieves.
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Free Eats
1937
Reunion in Rhythm
6/1
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
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Reunion in Rhythm
1933
The Kid from Borneo
6.9/8
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
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The Kid from Borneo
1981
Rascal Dazzle
7/1
The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jerry Lewis, Music by Nelson Riddle.
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Rascal Dazzle
1974
Truck Turner
6.447/47
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
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Truck Turner
1931
The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
0/0
Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fantastic collection have been fully-restored and ar...
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The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
1934
Honky Donkey
7.2/4
Wally, the rich kid of Our Gang team, brings his pet mule along with the gang back home.
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Honky Donkey
1994
The Our Gang Story
0/0
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 epi...
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The Our Gang Story
2001
Our Gang - Comedy Festival
0/0
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your...
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
1939
Outside These Walls
7.5/1
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...
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Outside These Walls
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1934
Kid Millions
6.5/6
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Kid Millions
1975
Huckleberry Finn
6/4
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...
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Huckleberry Finn
1933
Fish Hooky
7.7/3
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
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Fish Hooky
1944
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
6/2
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the lif...
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2021
The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2
0/0
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2 contains the next 11 Our Gang sound shorts produced by Roach at the dawn of the "talkie er...
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The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2
2021
The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 3
0/0
From 1929 to 1931, Hal Roach's “Our Gang” series showcasing scruffy but lovable kids was among the studio's biggest successes in the new era of sound....
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The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 3
2022
The Little Rascals: Classicflix Restorations Vol 4
0/0
Remastered, uncut and beautifully restored, now you can see The Little Rascals like never before! With restorations so glorious, it will be like watch...
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The Little Rascals: Classicflix Restorations Vol 4
1931
Dogs Is Dogs
5.7/3
Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.
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Dogs Is Dogs
1931
Big Ears
4.5/2
Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.
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Big Ears
2022
The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection (Centennial Edition)
0/0
A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, this 6-disc set also includes over 4 hours of bonus material and features the talents of George “Spanky” McFarl...
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The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection (Centennial Edition)
1980
Pray TV
4.8/5
A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which...
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