Billy (Froggy) Laughlin was added to the Our Gang cast in 1940 after an MGM executive heard him do a Popeye imitation at a movie theater. From 1940 through the end of the series in 1944 Laughlin played the cross-eyed, bespectacled Froggy, a character who spoke in a croaky voice. (Many Our Gang fans still mistakenly assume that was Laughlin's true voice!) Laughlin and a friend were tragically killed on August 31, 1948 in La Puente, CA. While delivering newspapers on a motor scooter, the pair were struck by a bus. Laughlin was just 16 years old.