He also appeared as one of Mother Peep's children in the Laurel & Hardy feature film Babes in Toyland (1934).

He also appeared with Shirley Temple in Captain January in 1936, playing the "know-it-all" boy who forgets his answers on the test.

On radio, Tucker played "the juvenile lead" on Jones and I, which was broadcast on CBS in the early 1940s[4] and Roy Barry on the soap opera Hilltop House.

During World War II, he sustained an injury that caused him to limp, when his ship was hit by a Japanese kamikaze.

Tucker died on November 23, 2016, of natural causes at Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, New York.