Switzer’s canine companions were Treeing Walker coonhounds. After his murder in 1959 at 31, Switzer’s parents arranged for his grave marker at Hollywood Forever Cemetery to include an etching ...

Author James Tehrani joins Rick Kogan to talk about his book, ‘Alfalfa: The Rascal You Knew, the Character You Never Knew’.

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 ...

Carl Switzer, who played Alfalfa in the "Our Gang" comedy series of the 1930s, was fatally shot in 1959. He was 31. He's the subject of a new biography by James Tehrani.