Jackie Searl
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{{short description|American actor (1921–1991)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jackie Searl
| image = Jackie Searl (cropped).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Searl in the 1930s
| birth_name = John E. Searl
| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|7|7}}
| birth_place = Anaheim, California, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|4|29|1921|7|7}}
| death_place = Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| yearsactive = 1929–1969
| other_names = Jack Searle, Jackie Searle
| occupation = Actor
}}
John E. Searl (July 7, 1921 – April 29, 1991) was an American actor. He portrayed bratty kids in several films,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rtVUAAAAIBAJ&pg=5595,5169303&dq=jackie-searl&hl=en|title=Successful Life For Jackie Searl|date=November 29, 1960|work=The Leader-Post|access-date=August 16, 2011}} and often had only small roles, such as "Robin Figg" in 1934's Strictly Dynamite.
Early years
His name is sometimes written as Jackie Searle,{{cite book|last1=Kear|first1=Lynn|last2=Rossman|first2=John|title=The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances|date=2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786431984|page=258|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkvfCwAAQBAJ&q=%22Jackie+Searl%22+actor&pg=PA258|access-date=July 14, 2017|language=en}} and by 1960, he was billed as Jack Searl.{{cite news|last1=Thomas|first1=Bob|title=Kid Actor Makes Good|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12349859/the_decatur_daily_review/|work=The Decatur Daily Review|agency=Associated Press|date=November 28, 1960|location=Illinois, Decatur|page=13|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 13, 2017}} {{Open access}} As a child actor, he began performing on a local Los Angeles radio station at the age of three.
Searl served four years in the U.S. Army, primarily as a radio instructor, during World War II.
Career
File:Jack Kelly-Jackie Searl in Maverick.jpg in Maverick]]
His first movie role was in Daughters of Desire (1929), followed by Tom Sawyer (1930) with Jackie Coogan and Mitzi Green, and Huckleberry Finn in 1931.
Notable films in which he appeared include Skippy, High Gear, Peck's Bad Boy, Great Expectations, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. In the 1940s, he had some supporting character roles before disappearing for nearly a decade. In the early 1960s, Searl enjoyed a flurry of activity as a supporting villain on television. For example, he appeared in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Traveling Treasure," first aired on CBS on November 4, 1961. Credited as Jack Searl, he appeared in 1962 as Slick - Henchman on the TV western Lawman in the episode titled "The Tarnished Badge"{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} and in 1965 as Henden in the episode "Much A Glue About Nothing" of the situation comedy The Cara Williams Show.[http://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/CaraWilliamsShow.htm Classic TV Archive The Cara Williams Show (1964–1965)]
Partial filmography
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1929
| | |
| 1930
| Student (The Schoolroom) (uncredited) | Edmund Goulding and 10 other directors | |
| 1930
| Nick Higgenson as a Child (uncredited) | Sam Wood | |
| 1930
| Sid | |
| 1930
| Himself | |
| 1931
| Little Wilson Boy | |
| 1931
| Sidney | |
| 1931
| Skippy | Sidney | |
| 1931
| Daybreak | August | |
| 1931
| Tiny Tim | |
| 1931
| Sid Sawyer | |
| 1931
| Sooky | Sidney Saunders | |
| 1931
| The House That Shadows Built | | | (clip of upcoming film Huckleberry Finn) - (archive footage) |
| 1932
| Willie as a Child | |
| 1932
| Boy at Meadville RR Station (uncredited) | |
| 1932
| Shandy O'Hara | |
| 1932
| Sponge Throwing Orphan (uncredited) | |
| 1932
| Sammy | |
| 1933
| Topaze | Charlemagne de La Tour-La Tour | |
| 1933
| The Ship's Bad Boy | |
| 1933
| Jimmy Evans | |
| 1933
| | |
| 1933
| Detective's Son | |
| 1933
| Clarence | |
| 1933
| Little Heinie in Hat Department (uncredited) | |
| 1933
| John - as a Boy (uncredited) | |
| 1933
| Dormouse | |
| 1934
| Gareb | |
| 1934
| Robin | |
| 1934
| Leland Stanford Jones | |
| 1934
| Herbie Vane | |
| 1934
| Horace Clay | | |
| 1934
| Herbert Pocket, as a chil | |
| 1934
| Curtis as a Child | |
| 1935
| Andy 'Gimpy' Campbell - the Orphan | |
| 1935
| Ginger | Hamilton Parker | |
| 1936
| Tom | |
| 1936
| Herbert Livingston Atwater | |
| 1937
| Elliot 'Wet Mouth' Braxton | |
| 1937
| Chaunce Ralston | |
| 1938
| Cyril Gerrard | |
| 1938
| Tony | |
| 1938
| Little Tough Guys in Society | Randolph | |
| 1939
| Alfred Goonplatz | |
| 1940
| Boy | |
| 1940
| Prentiss Dover | |
| 1941
| Sulky Driver (uncredited) | |
| 1941
| Georgie Clemons | |
| 1942
| Tim Randall | |
| 1945
| Young Cavendish (uncredited) | |
| 1947
| Joe (uncredited) | |
| 1948
| Waiter in Diving Suit (uncredited) | |
| 1948
| Hazard | Public Defender | |
| 1948
| Lieutenant Brown (uncredited) | |
| 1948
| Freddy Forsythe | |
| 1948
| Jasper Martin | |
| 1949
| Legionnaire (uncredited) | |
| 1932
| Belmont (uncredited) | |
| 1960
| Mr. O'Brien (as Jack Searle) | | |
| 1962
| Gunsmoke | Floyd | | |
| 1963
| Shotgun Wedding | Silas | | |
| 1964
| Sheriff's Adviser (uncredited) | |
| 1967
| Husband (uncredited) | |
Television
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Rawhide | Hollis | S3:E25, "Incident of the Running Man" |
| 1962 | Gunsmoke | Floyd | S8:E2, "Call Me Dodie" |
| 1963 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Nicky Long | Season 2 Episode 1: "A Home Away from Home" |
| 1963
|Ollie Benson |S6:E15, "The Case of the Prankish Professor" |
References
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Bibliography
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 98–99.
- Dye, David. Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914-1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988, pp. 210–211.
- Best, Marc. Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen. South Brunswick and New York: Barnes & Co., 1971, pp. 230–234.
- Willson, Dixie. Little Hollywood Stars. Akron, OH, e New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1935.
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0780684|name=Jackie Searl}}
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