- Joe Cobb
Joe Frank Cobb (November 7, 1916 - May 21, 2002) was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the "Our Gang" comedies from 1922 to 1929. Some sources such as the first edition of "Our Gang The Life And Times of The Little Rascals" written by Lenoard Maltin have him born in 1917. - Mickey Daniels
Richard "Mickey" Daniels, Jr. (October 11, 1914 - August 20, 1970) was a juvenile actor, the son of actor Richard Daniels and nephew of actress Bebe Daniels. Signed by Hal Roach in 1927, he was along with fat Joe Cobb, scruffy Jackie Condon, pretty Mary Kornman and smiling "Sunshine" Sammy Morrison, a regular on the popular "Our Gang" comedies. - Darla Hood
Darla Jean Hood (November 8, 1931 - June 13, 1979) was an American child actress. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher. Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, … - Mary Kornman
Mary Kornman was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the "Our Gang" series during the Pathé silent era. After the series, she had a successful movie career through her twenties. She also continued appearing with "Our Gang" co-star Mickey Daniels into adulthood, as evidenced by some publicity shots from the era. She appeared with Mickey Daniels in the teen version of Our Gang, "The Boy Friends". - Jackie Condon
Jackie Condon (John Condon was an American child actor who was a regular on the "Our Gang" short series during the Pathé silent era. Jackie was known for his impish behavior and his wild unruly hair which looked like it had been combed with an eggbeater. Although he was popular, he was never really a standout player. Despite that Condon was the only regular to appear in every one of the sixty-six Pathe comedies produced. - Robert Blake
Robert Blake (born September 18, 1933) is an American actor most famous for starring in the U.S. television series "Baretta." - Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper (born September 15, 1922) is an American actor, TV director, and TV producer. He was a child actor who managed to transition into an adult career. - Scotty Beckett
Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 - May 10, 1968), better known as Scotty Beckett was an American child actor. He is best remembered for his parts in the "Our Gang" and "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" series. - Johnny Downs
Johnny Downs (b. John Morey Downs on October 10 1913 in Brooklyn, New York - d. June 6 1994 in Coronado, California) was a child actor who played Johnny in the "Our Gang" short series from 1923 to 1926. He was the son of a Naval officer. Following his stint with "Our Gang", Downs stayed with the short-subject series until 1927, appearing in twenty-four two-reelers in various roles. - Tommy Bond
Thomas Ross Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor in the "Our Gang" ("Little Rascals") comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen. - Dickie Moore
Dickie Moore (born John Richard Moore Jr. on September 12, 1925) is a former American child actor. Besides appearing in a number of major feature films, he was featured as a regular in the "Our Gang" series from 1932 to 1933, and he is most remembered for his portrayal of the title character in the 1933 adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" and as Marlene Dietrich's son in "Blonde Venus" (1932). - Mary Ann Jackson
Mary Ann Jackson was an American former child actress who appeared in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1928 to 1931. She was a native of Los Angeles, California. - Jean Darling
Jean Darling (born Dorothy Jean LeVake on August 23, 1922) is a former American child actress who was a regular in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. In 1926 at the age of four, Jean got her big break when she passed her screen test and was accepted for a part in the Hal Roach Our Gang series. By that stage her name had been changed to Jean Darling. Jean appeared in 35 Our Gang films during this period. - Jay R. Smith
Jay R. Smith (August 29, 1915 - October 5, 2002) was an American former child actor who replaced Mickey Daniels as the "freckle-faced kid" of the "Our Gang" series in 1925. He continued appearing in the shorts until 1929. His first episode was "Boys Will Be Joys". He was considered the skinny kid in the series and somewhat of a nerd. He continued until the silent era ended. - Wally Albright
Wally Albright (Walton Algernon Albright, Jr.) (September 3, 1925 - August 7, 1999) was an American former child actor. Born in Burbank, CA, Albright appeared in a number of films during his career, and is notable for appearing as a main character in the "Our Gang" short subjects series in 1934. He only starred on Our Gang for about 6 months appearing in only five episodes plus one additional episode in 1932. But he had lead roles in the five episodes from 1934. - Carl Switzer
Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer (August 7, 1927 - January 21, 1959) was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and expert hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the "Our Gang" short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters. - Jerry Tucker
Jerry Tucker (born Jerome H. Schatz on November 1, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the "rich kid" in the "Our Gang" short subjects series semi-regularly from 1931 to 1938. Tucker went on to serve in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. He later went on to marry his wife Myra and have a long successful career with RCA before retiring. - Janet Burston
Janet Burston (January 11, 1935 - March 3, 1998) was an American child actress who was the final leading lady in the "Our Gang" short subjects series, replacing Darla Hood in 1942. She appeared in a few outside films as well, leaving show business in the late 1940s, eventually becoming a housewife. Burston died of cancer on March 3, 1998. She was 63. - Leonard Kibrick
Leonard Kibrick (September 6, 1924 - January 4, 1993), was an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1934 to 1936, usually portraying the villain. His role as the bully in the series was taken over by Tommy Bond (as "Butch") in 1937, and Leonard's younger brother Sidney Kibrick portrayed Butch's sidekick, "The Woim". A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kibrick died of cancer on January 4, 1993. - Harry Spear
Harry Spear (December 16, 1921 - September 22, 2006) was a former American child actor, notable for appearing in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. He was a native of Los Angeles, California. Spear's whereabouts after he ended his tenure in "Our Gang" remained a mystery for over half a century, but it is now known that he died in San Diego, California in 2006. - Jack Davis
Jackie Davis (John H. Davis) (April 5, 1914 - November 3, 1992), a native of Los Angeles, California, was an American child actor, notable for appearing in Hal Roach's "Our Gang" series. His sister Mildred Davis also acted; she appeared in Roach comedian Harold Lloyd's films as his leading lady. When Lloyd and Mildred were married in 1923, Lloyd pulled Jack out of "Our Gang" and enrolled him in military school. - Dorothy Deborba
Dorothy Adelle DeBorba (born March 28, 1925) is a former American 1930s child actress who was a regular in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1930 to 1933. She is of Portuguese Azorean ancestry. DeBorba was with "Our Gang" for three years, beginning her career at age five in 1930s "Pups Is Pups". Quickly, Dorothy became an audience favorite with her trademark curls and elaborate hair bows. - Donald Haines
Donald Haines (1918-1941?) was an American child actor who was a recurring in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1929 to 1933. His tenure began during the early talkees up through the "Miss Crabtree episodes", where he would leave for feature films at Paramount only to return a few months later. His tenure countinued through the "early Spanky episodes". His first short was "Shivering Shakespere" made at the tail end of 1929 and released early in 1930. - Shirley Jean Rickert
Shirley Jean Rickert was an American child actor who was briefly the "blond girl" for the "Our Gang" series in 1931, during the Roach talkie period. After the series, she had a brief movie career, followed by a string of jobs including driving trucks for the air force during World War II. She also worked in burlesque as Gilda and Her Crowning Glory. She is still alive (as of 2007), doing quilting and working with her daughter and grandchild. - Andy Samuel
Andy Samuel (April 10, 1909 - March 5, 1992), a native of Los Angeles, California, was a child actor who appeared in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1923 to 1925. - Ernie Morrison
Ernie Morrison (Ernest Fredric Morrison) (December 20, 1912 - July 24, 1989) was an African-American child actor who performed under the stage name "Sunshine Sammy". Morrison was the only black member of the East Side Kids, and was also the original "Our Gang" kid, a sidekick to Harold Lloyd, a silent screen comedian, a vaudevillian, and a dancer and band leader. - Jacquie Lyn
Jacquie Lyn (born Jaquelyn Dufton) (September 3, 1928 - March 21, 2002) was a British-born American child actress, who had a brief yet notable career in motion pictures. Lyn was born in London, England. After making her debut appearance in the 1931 Fox Film Corporation film "Wicked", Lyn was cast by producer Hal Roach into his "Our Gang" comedies. Lyn was featured prominently in two 1932 "Our Gang" shorts, … - Sidney Kibrick
Sidney Kibrick (born on July 2, 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the "Our Gang" short subjects series from 1935 to 1939. From 1937 to 1939, he portrayed "The Woim", the sidekick of the neighborhood bully "Butch", played by Tommy Bond. He is the brother of Leonard Kibrick, himself an "Our Gang" bully. - Billy Laughlin
Billy Laughlin (William Robert Laughlin) (July 5, 1932 - August 31, 1948) played the character Froggy in the "Our Gang" short films in its final stretch, from 1940 to 1944. Born in San Gabriel, California, Billy rose to fame at the age of eight when he appeared in his first "Our Gang" film, "The New Pupil". His character was known for his strange, Popeye-esque guttural voice which was reminiscent of a frog's croak. - Jackie Lynn Taylor
Jackie Lynn Taylor (Jacqueline Hope Taylor Fries) (born ca. 1925) is an American former child actress, notable for appearing in five "Our Gang" short subjects in 1934-1935. She often portrayed the sister or girlfriend of one of the boys, usually Wally Albright. Jackie has come a long way from being the coy, little blond leading lady of "Our Gang." In 1951, she joined KTTV as the hostess of the first daily two-hour variety show in the Los Angeles area. - Peggy Cartwright
Peggy Cartwright (born November 14 1912, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - June 12 2001, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) was a silent-era actress perhaps best known for her short stint as the leading lady of the "Our Gang" comedies. She appeared in four shorts in 1922 and, possibly, the pilot for the series (today a lost film). Her first husband was Phil Baker with whom she had four children. She married African American actor William Walker in 1962. - Eugene Jackson
Eugene Jackson, III was an African American former child actor who was a regular of the "Our Gang" short series during the silent Pathé era. When he joined the gang, Jackson, who replaced the series' very first member, Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, was nicknamed Pineapple because of his haircut's similarity to the shape of the pineapple fruit. - Billy Lee
Billy Lee (William Lee Schlenaker) (12 March 1929-17 November 1989) was a child actor who appeared in many films from the mid 1930s through the early 1940s. - George McFarland
Spanky McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances in the "Our Gang" series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and '40s. The juvenile ensemble is also known as "The Little Rascals". McFarland was born George Robert Goldman McFarland in Dallas, Texas (not in Ft. Worth as many biographies report). Born to Jewish parents Robert and Ethel Goldman. His middle name is derived from his parents last name. - Margaret Kerry
Margaret Kerry (born Peggy Lynch, circa 1930, Los Angeles) is an American actress, motivational speaker and radio host best known for her 1953 work as the model for Tinker Bell in the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature, "Peter Pan". Kerry answered an audition call during the planning stages of the film. The audition, supervised by Disney animator Marc Davis, required her to pantomime the motions that would eventually be animated as Tinker Bell, … - Clifton Young
Robert H. "Clifton" Young (September 15, 1917 - September 10, 1951) was a film actor with over fifty movie credits. He was born Robert H. Young, but took his mother's maiden name as his first. He played "Bonedust" in nineteen Our Gang films from 1925 to 1931. He had small parts in a number of 1940s film noir and western films. Notable films include "Nora Prentiss" (1947), "Pursued" (1947), "Possessed" (1947), "Dark Passage" (1947), … - Buddy McDonald
Buddy McDonald, (born October 1, 1922, in Coalinga, California) was a child actor. He is perhaps best known as one of the "Our Gang" kids of the early sound period, and McDonald is prominently featured in the "Our Gang" shorts "Teacher's Pet" (1930) and "School's Out" (1930). He appeared in several of the "Our Gang" comedies, and also appeared in a scene (later deleted) with Laurel & Hardy in "Pardon Us" (1931). - David Jack Holt
David Jack Holt (mostly known as David Holt) (August 14 1927 - November 15 2003) was an American actor initially groomed at age seven to be the male Shirley Temple. After being let down by Will Rogers, stress, polio, and resentment from his father precipitated his downfall, which culminated in being reduced to starring in the cheap drugs-scare melodrama "She Shoulda Said 'No'!", at age 22. By the time he was 25, … - Sonny Bupp
Sonny Bupp (born Moyer Bupp on January 10 1928 in New York City) is a former American child actor. He was the highest paid male child actor in 1937. Bupp appeared in two "Our Gang" comedies, 1935's "Our Gang Follies of 1936" and 1938's "Men in Fright". He also appeared in the 1937 Three Stooges short Cash and Carry. He is the only known living member of either the cast or crew of "Citizen Kane". - Matthew "stymie" Beard
Matthew Beard, Jr. (January 1, 1925 - January 8, 1981) was an African-American child actor, most famous for portraying the character of Stymie in the "Our Gang" short films from 1930 to 1935. In contrast to the character he replaced, Farina, Stymie was a slick-tongued con-artist who was always self-assured, nonchalant, and ready with a sly comment as well as clever ideas to solve the problems he faces.
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