Rand Brooks

RAND BROOKS d2003. American film and TV actor. After leaving school, he got a screen test at MGM and was given a bit part in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). His big fame came with his part as Charles Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), a role which he later admitted he despised. He wanted to play more macho parts. He made $100 per week under contract at MGM, but when he was on loan to Selznick International Pictures for Gone with the Wind, he made $500 per week. After Gone With the Wind, he had relatively small parts in other movies including Babes in Arms, then a regular role as "Lucky" in the Hopalong Cassidy series of Westerns in the mid-1940s. He succeeded Russell Hayden in the role. Amongst the films (which starred William Boyd as Hopalong) were Hoppy's Holiday / The Dead Don't Dream and Borrowed Trouble. He later appeared in 12 of the 52 episodes of the Hopalong Cassidy television series