by Hal Erickson
biography
In films from infancy, Tommy Bupp became a familiar juvenile actor in the 1930s. He was often cast as the younger version of the grown-up leading man in both A- and B-pictures. He worked steadily in Westerns, was briefly associated with Hal Roach's Our Gang, and was a memorable spoiled brat in 1939's Nancy Drew, Reporter. Comedy buffs will recall Bupp as Jimmy the Crippled Kid in the sentimental Three Stooges short Cash and Carry (1937). Tommy Bupp's credits are sometimes confused with those of his brother Sonny Bupp, who played Orson Welles' son in Citizen Kane (1941).
