Mr. W. C. Fields, whom I have admired since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an icepick, is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad." A starring role in the 1940 film The Biscuit Eater was to have been LeRoy's comeback. But while filming the first scene on location, which called for LeRoy to swing across a lake on a rope, he fell into the water twice. By the following day, he had lost his voice from a cold. As the entire crew was on location, the accident forced the director to choose between recasting or holding up production until he recovered. The director chose to recast, and the film became one of Billy Lee's best-remembered roles. LeRoy never appeared in another film. Overacker became a merchant seaman and in 1957, as an adult, appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show To Tell the Truth. He died in Van Nuys, California in 2001, aged 69. Filmography Sources Curtis, James (2003), W. C. Fields: A Biography, Alfred A. Knopf Publishing. Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, p. 179. Dye, David (1988). Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914–1985. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., p. 8. Lamparski, R. (1974), Whatever Became of ...: The New Fifth Series, Bantam Books: New York. Best, Marc (1971). Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen, South Brunswick and New York: Barnes & Co., pp. 161–165. Zierold, Norman J. (1965). The Child Stars. New York: Coward-McCann. Willson, Dixie (1935). Little Hollywood Stars. Akron, Ohio, and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co. References External links 1932 births 2001 deaths American male child actors American male film actors Male actors from Los Angeles Paramount Pictures contract players 20th-century American male actors