The tragedy of Walter Tetley

You know Walter Tetley as Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve radio show and as Julius on the Phil Harris and Alice Faye program. The tragedy is that Tetley was born in 1914, but the Gildersleeve program ran from 1941 to 1957, and the Harris/Faye program started in 1948. You can do the math, but Tetley was a grown man throughout all that period. His voice never changed. The official reason for this is that he suffered from a medical condition that prevented it. However, Bill Scott, one of Tetley's employers, said that his mother had been reluctant to give up the revenue from her child star, so she had had him castrated. Whichever is the real reason, he remained a child physically all his life. In 1971, he was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident and was in a wheelchair until his death in 1975.