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Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

12 March 1931, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death

10 October 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name

William Thomas Jr.

Spouse

?	(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, USA.

In 1990 the ABC program "20/20" (1978) was hoaxed into believing that Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas was alive and working as a grocery bagger in Tempe, Arizona. (Thomas actually died in 1980.) A segment broadcast October 5 with narrator Hugh Downs featured an impostor.

Has one son, Billy Jr.

Later worked as a film lab technician at Technicolor in Hollywood for over 20 years.

When introduced at a Little Rascals reunion in 1980, he received a spontaneous standing ovation. He was moved to tears. (He died 3 months later of a heart attack.)

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