Jackie Searl (July 7, 1921 - 29 April 1991) was an American child actor who began performing on a local Los Angeles

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 radio at the age of three. His first movie role was in Daughters of Desire (1929) followed by Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer (1930 film)

Tom Sawyer is a 1930 American drama film directed by John Cromwell. The screenplay by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, and Sam Mintz is based on the 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain....

(1930) with Jackie Coogan

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 and Mitzi Green

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, and Huckleberry Finn in 1931.

Career

Searl was especially known for playing bratty kids, and often had only small roles, such as "Robin Figg" in 1934's Strictly Dynamite. Notable films he appeared in 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.

Filmography

• Passport to Pimlico
  Passport to Pimlico
  Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starred Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius....
  
  (1949)
• The Paleface (1948)
• Hazard (1948)
• Lady at Midnight (1948)
• The Fabulous Dorseys
  The Fabulous Dorseys
  The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 fictionalized biographical film which tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion....
  
  (1947)
• Small Town Deb (1941)
• Glamour Boy (1941)
• Military Academy
  Military Academy (film)
  Military Academy is an American film directed by D. Ross Lederman, scripted by Karl Brown and David Silverstein from a story by Richard English and released as a low-budget programmer by Columbia Pictures on August 6, 1940...
  
  (1940)
• My Little Chickadee
  My Little Chickadee
  My Little Chickadee is a Universal comedy/western motion picture starring Mae West and W. C. Fields, with Joseph Calleia, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Dick Foran, George Moran, William B. Davidson, and Addison Richards. It was directed by Edward F. Cline...
  
  (1940)
• The Angels Wash Their Faces
  The Angels Wash Their Faces
  The Angels Wash Their Faces is a 1939 Warner Bros. film starring Ronald Reagan and The Dead End Kids.-Plot:Gabe Ryan is released from reform school and it taken to a new house by his sister Joy to start a new life where no one knows of his past...
  
  (1939)
• That Certain Age
  That Certain Age
  That Certain Age is a 1938 Universal musical film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Billy Wilder.-Plot:Alice Fullerton is the 15-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Bill. She becomes involved with a group of boy scouts, who is led by Ken Warren. Ken wants to put on a show to raise money...
  
  (1938)
• Little Tough Guy
  Little Tough Guy
  Little Tough Guy is a 1938 Universal Studios film that starred several of the Dead End Kids. Although re-release posters and the DVD release credit them as The Dead End Kids they did not go by that title in the on screen credits. It was in the follow-up films that they began using the team name...
  
  (1938)
• Little Tough Guys in Society
  Little Tough Guys in Society
  Little Tough Guys in Society is a 1938 Universal Studios film that starred several of the Dead End Kids. It was the second film that Universal made in their series and the first of three that they made without any of the original Dead End Kids....
  
  (1938)
• Wild and Woolly (1937)

• Two Wise Maids (1937)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
  Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)
  Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, , and C. Aubrey Smith...
  
  (1936)
• Gentle Julia (1936)
• Ginger (1935)
• Unwelcome Stranger (1935)
• Murder on the Blackboard
  Murder on the Blackboard
  Murder on the Blackboard is a mystery film starring Edna May Oliver as schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and James Gleason as Police Inspector Oscar Piper. Together, they investigate a murder at Withers' school...
  
  (1934)
• No Greater Glory (1934)
• Strictly Dynamite (1934)
• She Was a Lady (1934)
• A Wicked Woman (1934)
• Great Expectations
  Great Expectations (1934 film)
  Great Expectations is a 1934 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Filmed with mostly American actors, it was the first sound version of the novel and was produced in Hollywood by Universal Studios and directed by Stuart Walker. It stars Phillips Holmes as Pip, Jane Wyatt as...
  
  (1934)
• Peck's Bad Boy
  Peck's Bad Boy
  Peck's Bad Boy is a 1934 American drama film directed by Edward F. Cline. It was based on the series of books by George W. Peck.- Cast :*Jackie Cooper as Bill Peck*Thomas Meighan as Henry Peck*Jackie Searl as Horace Clay...
  
  (1934)
• The Return of Casey Jones (1933)
• One Year Later (1933)
• The World Changes
  The World Changes
  The World Changes is a 1933 drama film starring Paul Muni as an ambitious farm boy who becomes rich, but does not handle success well. Aline MacMahon and Mary Astor play his mother and wife respectively.-Cast:*Paul Muni as Orin Nordholm Jr....
  
  (1933)
• High Gear
  High Gear (1933 film)
  High Gear is a 1933 American film directed by Leigh Jason. The film is also known as The Big Thrill in the United Kingdom.- Plot summary :...
  
  (1933)

• Topaze (1933)
• Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (1933 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of Lewis Carroll. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. It is all live-action, except for the Walrus and The Carpenter sequence, which was animated by Leon Schlesinger Productions.Stars featured...
  
  (1933)
• Lovers Courageous (1932)
• Officer Thirteen (1932)
• The Miracle Man
  The Miracle Man (1932 film)
  The Miracle Man is a 1932 drama film directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Sylvia Sidney and featuring Boris Karloff. It is a remake of the 1919 film of the same name. The film was originally supposed to star Tyrone Power Sr, as the Preacher/Patriarch, but he died before major filming got underway...
  
  (1932)
• Hearts of Humanity (1932)
• Sooky (1931)
• Skippy
  Skippy (1931 film)
  Skippy is a film that was released in 1931. It was one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz was based on the comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby...
  
  (1931)
• Newly Rich (1931)
• Scandal Sheet (1931)
• Finn and Hattie (1931)
• Huckleberry Finn (1931)
• Daybreak (1931)
• Paramount on Parade (1930)
• Tom Sawyer
  Tom Sawyer (1930 film)
  Tom Sawyer is a 1930 American drama film directed by John Cromwell. The screenplay by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, and Sam Mintz is based on the 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain....
  
  (1930)

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