Gene Reynolds (born Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal), 96, has passed. He is perhaps overall best known (definitely is to me) as a former child and teen actor in 1930s and '40s Hollywood films (including some extremely well-known ones), though was also subsequently very successful as a producer, director, and writer. Particularly notably, he was a co-creator of the hit television series MASH.

I most remember Reynolds for his portrayal of sensitive crippled boy Tony Ponessa in Boys Town (1938), though have seen him also in some other films of back then.

Here's his Variety obituary.

RIP.