Matthew 'Stymie' Beard

Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Actor)
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Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats" , whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella seems disinterested in Eric, he decides if he had money she would pay attention to his advances. (imdb)
The musical career of Buddy Holly is chronicled, from the days when "Peggy Sue" was "Cindy Lou," a song about his first girlfriend, to the meteoric run of "That'll Be The Day" up the charts, to his marriage, breakup with the Crickets, reunion with the Crickets, and untimely death. (imdb)
Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he finds the same old setup, including slave trade. (imdb)
Free Wheeling (1932) - Short Film
Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck. (imdb)
It's Good to Be Alive (1974) - TV Movie
The story of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short in 1959 when he lost the use of his legs in an auto accident. (imdb)
A Lad an' a Lamp (1932) - Short Film
Filled with stories of Aladdin's magic lamp, the gang starts rubbing every lamp in sight in hopes of finding the one with the magic which leads the gang to think they've found the magic lamp, and a helpful vaudeville magician augments the illusion. Spanky decides to wish that Stymie's little brother Cotton was a monkey, an escaped chimpanzee shows up and frightens Cotton. The gang believes the wish has come true and mayhem ensues as they try to keep the police from shooting the runaway simian. (imdb)
Spanky (1932) - Short Film
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune." (imdb)
The Pooch (1932) - Short Film
Stymie spots a dogcatcher taking the gang's dogs and lets them out of the dogcatcher's truck. But the gang thinks Stymie is stealing their dogs and threaten him. When it's learned that Stymie actually was rescuing their pets and that the dogcatcher now has Stymie's dog Petey in custody, the gang helps him in his attempt to save Petey before the dogcatcher can gas him. (imdb)
Readin' and Writin' (1932) - Short Film
Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled. (imdb)
The Kid from Borneo (1933) - Short Film
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo." (imdb)
Forgotten Babies (1933) - Short Film
While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting. (imdb)
Wild Poses (1933) - Short Film
An Our Gang Comedy. Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer. (imdb)
Mush and Milk (1933) - Short Film
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park. (imdb)
Fish Hooky (1933) - Short Film
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him. (imdb)
Bedtime Worries (1933) - Short Film
An Our Gang Comedy. Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room. (imdb)
Love Business (1931) - Short Film
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house. (imdb)
Bargain Day (1931) - Short Film
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl. (imdb)
Dogs Is Dogs (1931) - Short Film
Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son. (imdb)
Big Ears (1931) - Short Film
Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting. (imdb)
Fly My Kite (1931) - Short Film
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. (imdb)
Little Daddy (1931) - Short Film
When local authorities find out that Farina is Stymie's guardian, they try to take him away. The kids try to stop it. (imdb)
Helping Grandma (1931) - Short Film
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. (imdb)
School's Out (1930) - Short Film
The kids mistake Miss Crabtree's brother for a potential boyfriend, and plot to discourage him. (imdb)
Teacher's Pet (1930) - Short Film
Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher. (imdb)
Shrimps for a Day (1934) - Short Film
A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison. (imdb)
Mama's Little Pirate (1934) - Short Film
The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave. (imdb)
Honky Donkey (1934) - Short Film
Wally (the rich kid of our gang team) brings his pet mule along with the gang back home. (imdb)
The First Round-Up (1934) - Short Film
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 and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home. (imdb)
Arthur Williams is a well-known violinist but he has an accident that injures his left-hand fingers and he can no longer play. Being a devotee of the classics, swing music grates his ears. His son, William, also has the soul of a true artist, and while he does well on classical music, his heart is into swing.
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 his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France.
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 infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.
Anniversary Trouble (1935) - Short Film
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money. (imdb)
Beginner's Luck (1935) - Short Film
Spanky's mother's pushes him to join a local theater amateur night. (imdb)
Reunion in Rhythm (1937) - Short Film
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids. (imdb)
Huckleberry Finn (1975) - TV Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures. (imdb)
Teacher's Beau (1935) - Short Film
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from geting married. (imdb)
Birthday Blues (1932) - Short Film
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present. (imdb)
Together with MGM's Hallelujah, Fox's Hearts in Dixie is historically significant as one of the first all-talkie, big-studio productions to boast a predominately African-American cast. The ineluctable Clarence Muse, all of forty years old, stars as elderly Grandpap Nappus, a former slave whose beloved daughter Chloe (Bernice Pilot) marries the shiftless Gummy (comedian Stepin Fetchit, in his only "straight" role). (allmovie.com)
A Day at Santa Anita (1937) - Short Film
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races. (imdb)
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York. (imdb)
Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.
Four Parts (1934) - Short Film
Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
The Cracked Ice Man (1934) - Short Film
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.