Our Gang personnel
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This page is a listing of the significant cast and crew for Hal Roach's Our Gang short subjects series, which ran in movie theatres from 1922 to 1944.
See also List of Our Gang shorts
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[edit] Our Gang kids (and pets)
Our Gang's lineup changed frequently; as kids left the series or outgrew their roles, new kids were recruited to join the cast. Some of the cast additions were direct changings-of-the-guard, and those are annotated accordingly. The groupings are not meant to represent a cast lineup for a particular Our Gang short from the period it represents, but rather a more general listing of the most important members of the cast during the period.
[edit] 1922-1926
Early silents period
- Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison
- Mickey Daniels
- Mary Kornman
- Jackie Condon
- Jackie Davis
- Johnny Downs
- Allen "Farina" Hoskins
- Joe Cobb
- Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson (replaced Sammy in 1925)
- Andy Samuel
- Pal the Wonderdog
- Dinah the Mule
[edit] 1926-1929
Late silents period
- Allen "Farina" Hoskins
- Jackie Condon
- Joe Cobb
- Jay R. Smith (replaced Mickey in 1926)
- Jean Darling (replaced Mary in 1926)
- Harry Spear
- Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins
- Mary Ann Jackson
- Dinah the Mule
- Pete the Pup
[edit] 1929-1931
Early sound period
- Allen "Farina" Hoskins
- Mary Ann Jackson
- Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins
- Norman "Chubby" Chaney (replaced Joe Cobb in 1929)
- Jackie Cooper
- Donald Haines
- Dorothy DeBorba
- Matthew "Stymie" Beard (joined in 1930, became Farina's replacement in 1931)
- Pete the Pup (the original Pete aka Pal the Wonderdog was poisoned in 1930, trainer Harry Lucenay used Pete's pups--who all appear in Pups is Pups (1930)--in the series after they reached maturity starting in 1931)
- Dinah the Mule
[edit] 1931-1933
Early transitional period
- Matthew "Stymie" Beard
- Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins
- Dorothy DeBorba
- Donald Haines
- Jackie Lyn Dufton
- Jerry Tucker
- George "Spanky" McFarland
- Tommy Bond
- Sherwood Bailey
- Kendall "Breezy Brisbane" McComas
- Dickie Moore
- Pete the Pup (Lucenay left the Roach studio in 1932; unrelated, dissimilar bulldogs played Pete in subsequent films)
[edit] 1934-1935
Mid-transitional period
- George "Spanky" McFarland
- Matthew "Stymie" Beard
- Jerry Tucker
- Tommy Bond (left in 1934, would return in 1937 as "Butch")
- Wally Albright
- Scotty Beckett
- Jackie Lynn Taylor
- Leonard Kibrick
- Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas (joined in 1934, became Stymie's replacement in 1935)
- Pete the Pup
[edit] 1935
Late transitional period
- George "Spanky" McFarland
- Scotty Beckett
- Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
- Jerry Tucker
- Leonard Kibrick
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (joined in 1935, became Scotty Beckett's replacement in 1936)
- Darla Hood
- Eugene "Porky" Lee
- Pete the Pup
- Elmer the Monkey
[edit] 1936-1939
Late Roach/Early MGM period
- George "Spanky" McFarland
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
- Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
- Darla Hood
- Eugene "Porky" Lee
- Tommy "Butch" Bond (replaced Leonard in 1937)
- Sidney "The Woim" Kibrick
- Darwood "Waldo" Kaye
- Gary "Junior" Jasgar
- Leonard Landy
- Pete the Pup
- Elmer the Monkey
[edit] 1939-1942
Transitional MGM period
- George "Spanky" McFarland
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
- Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
- Darla Hood
- Leonard Landy
- Mickey Gubitosi (replaced first Junior, and then Porky, in 1939)
- Billy "Froggy" Laughlin (joined in 1940, replaced Alfalfa in 1941)
- Janet Burston (made guest appearances from 1940 until she replaced Darla in 1942)
- Violet the Goat
[edit] 1942-1944
Late MGM period
- Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
- Billy "Froggy" Laughlin
- Bobby "Mickey" Blake (Gubitosi changed his name in 1942)
- Janet Burston
- Violet the Goat
[edit] Recurring adult actors
Many of the regular adult actors in Our Gang also frequently appeared in other Hal Roach comedies, including the Charley Chase and Laurel and Hardy series:
- June Marlowe as Miss Crabtree, the schoolteacher (1930-1932)
- Rosina Lawrence as Miss Lawrence/Miss Jones, the schoolteacher (1936-1937)
- Hattie McDaniel as Buckwheat's mother (1935-1936)
- Edgar Kennedy as Kennedy the cop (1929-1930)
- Emerson Treacy and Gay Seabrook as Spanky's parents (1933)
- Jimmy Finlayson
- Charlie Hall
- James C. Morton
- Mae Busch
- Johnny Arthur
- Clarence Wilson
- Billy Gilbert
- Lyle Tayo
- Otto Fries
- George and Olive Brasno
[edit] Directors
Hal Roach Studio
- Fred Newmeyer (1922 short Our Gang, 1936 shorts The Pinch Singer and Arbor Day, 1937 short Mail and Female, and General Spanky)
- Robert F. McGowan (1922 - 1933; 1936 short Divot Diggers)
- Robert A. McGowan (1926 - 1930) (Robert F.'s nephew, usually credited as "Anthony Mack")
- Gus Meins (1934 - 1936)
- Gordon Douglas (1936 - 1938 and General Spanky)
- James W. Horne (1930 short When the Wind Blows)
- James Parrott (1934 short Washee Ironee)
- Nate Watt (1938 shorts Three Men in a Tub and The Awful Tooth)
MGM
- Gordon Douglas (1938 shorts The Little Ranger and Aladdin's Lantern)
- George Sidney (1938 - 1939)
- Edward L. Cahn (1939 - 1942; 1943 short Three Smart Guys)
- Herbert Glazer (1942 - 1943)
- Sam Baerwitz (1943 short Calling All Kids)
- Cy Endfield (the final three 1944 shorts in the series: Radio Bugs, Dancing Romeo, and Tale of a Dog)
[edit] Key writers
- H.M. Walker (1922 - 1932)
- Walter Lantz (mid-1920s)
- Leo McCarey (early to mid-1920s)
- Frank Capra (mid-1920s)
- Charley Chase (early 1920s)
- Frank Tashlin (mid-1930s)
- Hal Roach (1922 - mid 1930s)
- Robert F. McGowan (1922 - 1933)
- Hal Law (wrote most of the MGM shorts)
- Robert A. McGowan (wrote most of the MGM shorts)
[edit] Musicians
[edit] Surviving cast members
As of November 26, 2007, the following Our Gang kids are still living: