JAY R. SMITH

Jay R. Smith was a child actor from the 1920s. He is best known for starring in many Our Gang comedy shorts in the 1920s. Some of his movies include: The Smile Wins, Noisy Noises, and The Fourth Alarm. He left Our Gang in 1929 and retired from movies, and worked in the retail paint business for many years. In his later years, he attended collectible shows where he gave his autograph. In an incredibly sad twist of events, he was murdered in 2002, by a homeless man that he had befriended. He was 87.