- Edgar Kennedy
Edgar Livingston Kennedy (b. April 26, 1890 in Monterey County, California; d. November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A former singer and boxer, Kennedy worked in hundreds of films beginning as a Keystone Kop in 1914. He would go on to work with the biggest film comedians in the United States, including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Our Gang. - 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, … - 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. - Eddie Murphy
Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has also enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", … - Walt Kelly
Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr (August 25, 1913 - October 18, 1973), known as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip "Pogo" featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While he was still a child, his family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut where his father worked in a munitions plant. After graduating from Warren Harding High School in 1930, … - 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. - 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. - 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". - 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. - 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. - Robert F. McGowan
Robert Francis McGowan (July 11 1882 - January 27 1955) was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the "Our Gang" short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933. Before moving to Los Angeles, California, McGowan was a firefighter in his native Denver, Colorado. An on-the-job accident during a fire rescue mission left him with a permanent limp. McGowan moved to California in the 1910s and made the acquaintance of Hal Roach, … - Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his great elegance and his fine sense of humour. French director Jean Renoir once said that no other Hollywood director understood people better than Leo McCarey. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, … - 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. - 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. - Billy Gilbert
Billy Gilbert (September 12, 1894 - September 23, 1971) was an American comedian and actor most known for his comic sneeze routines. Born William Gilbert Barron in Louisville, Kentucky, the child of singers with the Metropolitan Opera, he began working in vaudeville at the age of twelve and was 35 years old before he appeared in his first film for the Fox Film Corporation in 1929. Gilbert broke into comedy short subjects with producer Hal Roach, … - 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. - 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. - June Marlowe
June Marlowe (November 6, 1903 - March 10, 1984), was an American actress, most notable for appearing in six "Our Gang" short subjects as the lovely schoolteacher 'Miss Crabtree'. Marlowe was born Gisela Goetten, of German heritage, in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She was a prolific actress in silent films during the 1920s, appearing in films opposite John Barrymore and Rin Tin Tin. Her career did well, until the addition of sound to film. - Leroy Shield
Leroy Shield (October 2, 1893 - January 9, 1962, Vero Beach, Florida) was an American film score and radio composer. Shield, a native of Waseca, Minnesota, was an employee of RCA Victor's National Broadcasting Company, for which he composed and conducted a number of on-air musical pieces. He also worked as a part-time employee for the Hal Roach studio, … - 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. - Gus Meins
Gus Meins (March 6 1893 - August 1 1940) was a German-American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Meins first became notable as the director of a number of silent short subjects film series, including the "Buster Brown" comedies of the 1920s. He is best known as senior director of Hal Roach's "Our Gang" comedies from 1934 to 1936, and also as director of Laurel and Hardy's "Babes in Toyland". - 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. - 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. - Robert A. McGowan
Robert Anthony McGowan (May 22 1901 - June 20 1955) was an American screenwriter and film director. Born in Denver, Colorado, McGowan is best known as a junior director for the "Our Gang" short subjects film series from 1926 to 1930, and as the co-writer of the series during the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer period from 1938 to 1944. McGowan was named for his uncle, "Our Gang" senior director Robert F. McGowan. Since both Robert McGowans worked on the series, … - 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. - H. M. Walker
Harley M. "Beanie" Walker (c.1884 - 1937) was a member of the Hal Roach movie production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932. As head of the Roach editorial department, he wrote title cards and, in the talkie era, dialogue for virtually all of the studio's output of that period, including the Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedy serials. After leaving the Roach studio, Walker provided dialogue for comedies produced for Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures. - Marvin Hatley
Thomas Marvin Hatley (April 3 1905 - August 23 1986), professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an American film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940. Hatley wrote many of the musical cues appearing in the "Our Gang", "Laurel and Hardy", and "Charley Chase" films. His most memorable composition is "The Cookoo Song" (also known as "Ku-Ku", or "Dance of the Cookoos"), … - Art Lloyd
Arthur "Art" Lloyd (October 1896 - November 25, 1954) was an American cameraman and cinematographer who worked for Hal Roach Studios and filmed many of the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang comedies. - 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. - Rosina Lawrence
Rosina Lawrence (December 30 1912 - June 23 1997) was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa, Ontario. Lawrence had a short-lived but memorable career in the 1930s before she married in 1939 and retired from entertainment. She is best known for portraying Mary Roberts in Laurel and Hardy's 1937 film "Way Out West". She is also recognizable as Miss Lawrence (or Miss Jones), … - Billy Bletcher
William "Billy" Bletcher (September 24, 1894 - January 5, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, and voice artist, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. The diminutive (62 inches) Bletcher appeared on-screen in films and later television from the 1920s to the 1970s, including appearances in several "Our Gang" comedies. He was also famous as a voice actor. Uncharacteristically for someone of his size, his voice was deep and strong-sounding. - George Sidney
George Sidney (October 4 1916 - May 5 2002) was a prolific American film director, who directed many notable films, mostly for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. He was born in Long Island City, New York. Sidney got his start as an assistant at MGM until being assigned to direct the "Our Gang" comedies, which MGM had just acquired from Hal Roach, in 1938. Sidney, then age 21, was the youngest "Our Gang" senior director ever, … - 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. - Travis Tedford
Travis William Tedford (born August 19 1988) is an American actor. Travis was born in Rowlett, Texas to Timmy Bill Tedford and Paula Kay Dixon. Most popular as a child actor during the 1990s, he is best known for appearing in Welch's television commercials and for portraying "Our Gang" kid (and fellow Texan) Spanky McFarland in the 1994 feature film "The Little Rascals". Travis currently resides in Athens, Texas, and graduated from high school in 2006. - 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. - 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. - Franklin Pangborn
Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 - July 20, 1958) was an American character actor. Pangborn was famous for small, but memorable roles, with a comic flair. He appeared in many Preston Sturges movies as well as the W.C. Fields films "International House", "The Bank Dick", and "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break". For his contributions to motion pictures, Pangborn has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street. - 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.
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