Biography[]
Character: Rex
Birthday: April 21, 1925
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California
Date of Death: November 18, 2020
Place of Death: Paso Robles, California
First Short: Teacher's Beau
Last Short: The Pigskin Palooka
Number of Shorts: 10
Year Active: 1935–2007
History: Rex Downing is the older brother of Barry Downing. Both brothers starred in a string of movies at Hal Roach studios before leavng acting in 1969. According to Maltin and Bann, Rex became a teacher in Woodland Hills around Los Angeles.
List of Shorts[]
- Teacher's Beau
- Little Sinner
- Our Gang Follies Of 1936
- The Pinch Singer
- Two Too Young
- Pay As You Exit
- Spooky Hooky
- General Spanky
- Glove Taps
- The Pigskin Palooka
Other Projects[]
- Branded A Coward (1935)
- Little Miss Nobody (1936) - uncredited
- The Black Bandit (1938)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- Mandrake The Magician (1939)
- Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
- The Escape (1939) - uncredited
- Adventure In Damonds (1939) - uncredited
- Blood And Sand (1939)
- The Vanishing Virginian (1942) - uncredited
- The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
- The Gas House Kids (1946)
- The Invisible Wall (1947) - uncredited
- That Hagen Girl (1947) - uncredited
- The Gangster (1948) - uncredited
- Call Northside-777 (1948) - uncredited
- He Walked By Night (1948) - uncredited
- Act Of Violence (1948) - uncredited
- Harvest Of Redemption (2007)