Carl Switzer, best known as the mischievous “Alfalfa” from the Our Gang film series, was born to be a star. From his early days in Paris, Illinois, Switzer and his brother Harold charmed ...

Carl Switzer skyrocketed to fame as freckle-faced Alfalfa in the "Our Gang" series – but it wouldn’t be a wonderful life for the actor. At age 31, the former child star was killed in a fight ...

Carl Switzer was a child star best known for playing Alfalfa in the Little Rascals’ Our Gang series in the 1930s. Unfortunately, he suffered a tragic fate and was killed when he was only 31 ...

He was honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in 1994. Believe it or not, Carl Switzer and his brother became famous in their hometown of Paris, Illinois, for their musical talents!

The small town of Paris, Ill., is the birthplace of Carl Switzer, the late actor who played the iconic Alfalfa in the “Little Rascals” series, and Brett Eldredge, the country music singer whos ...

s famous former citizens: Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, of “Little Rascals” fame. Troise, a New York City native who lives in Queens, says she certainly didn’t intend to take up residence in ...

Carl Switzer (1926-1959), Alfalfa of the “Little Rascals.” Switzer’s father “is there too. His father has a strange-looking machine on his tombstone that looks like a gas pump with suction ...