Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas Bio
- Job Title (Role): Actor
- Given Name: Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
- Family Name: William Thomas Jr.
- Birthday: March/12/1931
- Born in: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery Inglewood California USA
- In 1990 the ABC program " 20 20" 1978 was hoaxed into believing that Billy " Buckwheat" Thomas was alive and working as a grocery bagger in Tempe Arizona Thomas actually died in 1980 A segment broadcast October 5 with narrator Hugh Downs featured an impostor
- Has one son Billy Jr
- Later worked as a film lab technician at Technicolor in Hollywood for over 20 years
- When introduced at a Little Rascals reunion in 1980 he received a spontaneous standing ovation He was moved to tears He died 3 months later of a heart attack