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Larry Lee Simms (October 1, 1934 - June 17, 2009) was an American child actor with 36 films between 1937 and 1951.
Larry Simms Actor - Date of Birth 1 October 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of Death 17 June 2009, Chonburi, Thailand (emphysema)
Birth Name Larry Lee Simms
Mini Bio (1) After Larry's first retirement, he worked at Arabian-American Oil Company refinery in Saudi Arabia for Fluor Daniel. Later, Larry was tasked to spearhead the implementation of the Telecommunications infrastructure for a Shell refinery in Rayong, Thailand, also at the employ of Fluor Daniel.
Then he remained in Thailand in true retirement.
edit- IMDb Mini Biography By: Brad Wimer, a close friend
Living in Thailand with his wife [November 2006]
Curly-haired child actor, best known as 'Baby Dumpling' in the Blondie series of films (1938-48). He was a model from the age of two and was discovered by a Hollywood talent scout, having been featured in a 1937 Saturday Evening Post advertisement. After leaving show business in 1950, he had a spell in the U.S. Navy, then was employed as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena until his retirement.
Child actor in US films of the mid-30's to early 40's.
Larry Simms Actor - A child model from age two, Larry Simms was discovered by a Hollywood talent scout when he appeared in a 1937 Saturday Evening Post advertisement. The three-year-old, curly haired Simms made his screen debut as the infant son of Jimmy Stewart and Rose Stradner in MGM's The Last Gangster. He was then hired by Columbia to play Baby Dumpling in the 1938 cinemadaptation of Chic Young's comic strip Blondie. Simms remained with the Blondie series until its cessation in 1950, billed onscreen as Baby Dumpling until his character name was formalized as Alexander Bumstead. During this period, he also made a few "outside" appearances in films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and Madame Bovary (1949). Though his career as a child star was a pleasant experience (and, at 750 dollars per week, a lucrative one), Simms wasn't all that interested in acting; the technical end of moviemaking was more fascinating to him. In 1950, he quit show business to join the Navy, then studied aeronautical engineering at California Polytech. Larry Simms was then hired as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where he remained until his retirement.
Biography by Hal Erickson
