Walton Algernon Albright Jr (1925-99) appears to have been a Hollywood child actor who came out of the experience unscathed and went on to have a productive life outside show business.
Albright made his screen debut aged 3 and had notched up over sixty appearances by the age of 15. He had a handful of roles as an adult, but also pursued other interests. In 1957, he won a title at the National Water Ski Championships in the Trick category. He also ran a successful trucking business.
In 1931, Albright appeared in MGM’s The Prodigal. A few years later he was part of Our Gang for half a dozen pictures. He also featured,as a teenager, in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), playing the boy at the migrant camp who pretends his family eats chicken.
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