Brandon "Bug" Hall (born February 4, 1985) is an American former actor. He is best known for his childhood roles as Alfalfa Switzer in ''

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'' (1994), Newt Shaw in '' The Big Green'' (1995), and Buster Stupid in '' The Stupids'' (1996).

Life and career

Brandon Hall, nicknamed "Bug" by his family, was born in

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, on February 4, 1985. He is the second oldest in his family. Most popular as a child actor during the 1990s, he is best known for portraying ''

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'' kid

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in the 1994 film ''

''. He and five others in the cast of ''The Little Rascals'' won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Youth Ensemble in a Motion Picture. Following ''Rascals'', Hall appeared in

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's '' The Stupids'' and the soccer comedy '' The Big Green''. In 1996, Hall was nominated for a YoungStar award (Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Made For TV Movie) for his work as Eddie Munster in the Fox telefilm '' The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas'', and he voiced a little boy in

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's ''

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'' in 1997. In 1998, he played the lead as Scout Bozell in the film '' Safety Patrol''. Hall also starred in Disney's '' Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'' as Adam Szalinski. Since then, he has continued to appear in films as a teenager and young adult. He was in the direct-to-DVD film '' Skipped Parts'', released in 2000, with Mischa Barton. He also appeared in 2002 in the Disney Channel Original Movie '' Get a Clue'', starring

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and Brenda Song. Hall has had many notable TV guest appearances, appearing on '' Charmed'', ''

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'', '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', '' Cold Case'', ''

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'', '' Providence'', ''

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'', and '' 90210''.

Personal life

In 2013, Hall converted to

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, later leaving Hollywood in 2020. In 2021, Hall stated that he and his family had moved to a farm in the Midwest, so as to undertake a

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. In December 2022, Hall was temporarily banned on

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after posting Tweets in support of marital duty and corporal punishment of minors, regarding his two daughters. He followed up on the ban through his

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stating: "The truth will always be unpopular. The truthful will always be persecuted. But eternity will always be sweet". In September 2024, Hall was criticized for referring to his daughters as "dishwashers" in an X post regarding the birth of his first son, who he called his "heir".

2020 arrest

In June 2020, Hall was arrested for inhaling an air duster and was charged with a misdemeanor possession for use to inhale or ingest a volatile chemical. He was held and released on a $1,500 bond at Parker County Jail. '' TMZ'' reported that Hall's family were the ones who made the report and that Hall himself admitted to inhaling from cans.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Bug 1985 births 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male child actors American male film actors American male television actors American traditionalist Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism Living people Male actors from Fort Worth, Texas