This page is a listing of the significant cast and crew for Hal Roach

Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

's Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short subjects series, which ran in movie theatres from 1922 to 1944.

Our Gang kids (and pets)

Our Gangs 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 main members of the cast during the period.

Early silents period: 1922-1926

• Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison
  Ernie Morrison
  Ernest Fredric "Ernie" Morrison was an American child actor who performed under the stage name "Sunshine Sammy"...
  
  
• Mickey Daniels
  Mickey Daniels
  Richard "Mickey" Daniels, Jr. was a juvenile actor. Signed by Hal Roach in 1923, he was, along with fat Joe Cobb, scruffy Jackie Condon, pretty Mary Kornman, and smiling "Sunshine Sammy" , a regular in the popular Our Gang comedies.-Biography:The red-haired, gap-toothed, freckled whipper snapper...
  
  
• Mary Kornman
  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.-Our Gang:...
  
  
• Peggy Cartwright
  Peggy Cartwright
  Peggy Cartwright was a Canadian silent film 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, Our Gang .Her first husband was Phil Baker with whom she had four children...
  
  
• Jackie Condon
  Jackie Condon
  John Michael "Jackie" Condon was an American child actor who was a regular on the Our Gang short series during the Pathé silent era.-Career:...
  
  
• Jackie Davis
  Jack Davis (actor)
  Jackie Davis , 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...
  
  
• Johnny Downs
  Johnny Downs
  Johnny Downs was an American actor. Son of a Naval aviator, he was taken to Hollywood in 1921 when his father was transferred to the San Diego naval base. He began his career as a child actor, most notably playing Johnny in the Our Gang short series from 1923 to 1926...
  
  
• Allen "Farina" Hoskins
• Joe Cobb
  Joe Cobb
  Joe Frank Cobb was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929...
  
  
• Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson
  Eugene Jackson
  Eugene W. Jackson, II was an American former child actor who was a regular of the Our Gang short series during the silent Pathé era.-Career:...
  
   (replaced Sammy in 1925)
• Andy Samuel
  Andy Samuel
  Andy Samuel , a native of Los Angeles, California, was a child actor who appeared in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1923 to 1925.-External links:...
  
  
• Pal the Wonderdog
• Dinah the Mule

1926-1929

Late silents period

• Allen "Farina" Hoskins
• Jackie Condon
  Jackie Condon
  John Michael "Jackie" Condon was an American child actor who was a regular on the Our Gang short series during the Pathé silent era.-Career:...
  
  
• Joe Cobb
  Joe Cobb
  Joe Frank Cobb was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929...
  
  
• Jay R. Smith
  Jay R. Smith
  Jay Roger Smith 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.-Our Gang:...
  
   (replaced Mickey in 1926)
• Jean Darling
  Jean Darling
  Jean Darling is a former American child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. She remains the last surviving cast member from the silent era.-Career:...
  
   (replaced Mary in 1926)
• Harry Spear
  Harry Spear
  Harry Spear was a former American child actor, notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929...
  
  
• Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins
• Mary Ann Jackson
  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.-Career:...
  
  
• Bobby "Bonedust" Young
• Mildred Kornman
  Mildred Kornman
  Mildred Kornman , also known as Ricki VanDusen, is a former American child actress.Mildred, the younger sister of Mary Kornman, leading lady of the silent film Our Gang series, was featured as a regular in the series from 1926–1928 and made more appearances from 1929 until 1935...
  
  
• Dinah the Mule
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
   (called Minnie in at least one film)

1929-1931

Early sound period

• Allen "Farina" Hoskins
• Mary Ann Jackson
  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.-Career:...
  
  
• Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins
• Bobby "Bonedust" Young
• Norman "Chubby" Chaney (replaced Joe Cobb in 1929)
• Jackie Cooper
  Jackie Cooper
  Jackie Cooper was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination...
  
  
• Donald Haines
  Donald Haines
  Donald Haines was an American child actor who had recurring appearances in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1929 to 1933.-Our Gang:...
  
  
• Dorothy DeBorba
  Dorothy DeBorba
  Dorothy Adelle DeBorba was an American former child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933.-Early life:...
  
  
• Matthew "Stymie" Beard (joined in 1930, became Farina's replacement in 1931)
• Buddy McDonald
  Buddy McDonald
  Thomas "Buddy"/"Bud" McDonald was an American 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 and School's Out...
  
  
• Shirley Jean Rickert
  Shirley Jean Rickert
  Shirley Jean Rickert was an American child actress who was briefly the "blonde girl" for the Our Gang series in 1931, during the Hal Roach talkie period.-Career:...
  
  
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
   (the original Pete—a.k.a. Pal the Wonderdog—was poisoned in 1930; trainer Harry Lucenay used Pete's offspring [who all appear in Pups is Pups
  Pups Is Pups
  Pups Is Pups is a two-reel comedy short subject, part of the Our Gang series. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach, and originally released to theatres by M-G-M in 1930. It was the 100th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:Wheezer attempts to find his puppies after...
  
  ] in the series after they reached maturity starting in 1931)
• Dinah the Mule

1931-1933

Early transitional period

• Matthew "Stymie" Beard
• Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins
• Dorothy DeBorba
  Dorothy DeBorba
  Dorothy Adelle DeBorba was an American former child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933.-Early life:...
  
  
• Donald Haines
  Donald Haines
  Donald Haines was an American child actor who had recurring appearances in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1929 to 1933.-Our Gang:...
  
  
• Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker 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....
  
  
• George "Spanky" McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  
• Tommy Bond
  Tommy Bond
  Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.-Early years...
  
  
• Sherwood Bailey
  Sherwood Bailey
  Sherwood Bailey was an American former child actor. His parents were non-professionals. He is most notable for appearing as the red-headed, freckle-faced bad boy and enemy of the gang, Spud in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1931 to 1932.Bailey's most notable appearance was that of the...
  
  
• Kendall "Breezy Brisbane" McComas
• Dickie Moore
• Jacquie Lyn‎
• John "Uh-huh" Collum
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
   (Lucenay left the Roach studio in 1932; unrelated, dissimilar bulldogs played Pete in subsequent films)

1934-1935

Mid-transitional period

• George "Spanky" McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  
• Matthew "Stymie" Beard
• Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker 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....
  
  
• Tommy Bond
  Tommy Bond
  Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.-Early years...
  
   (left in 1934, would return in 1937 as "Butch")
• Wally Albright
  Wally Albright
  Wally Albright was an American former child actor.-Career:Albright was born Walton Algernon Albright, Jr. in Burbank, California. He appeared in a number of films during his career, and is notable for appearing in six Our Gang short subjects throughout the early 1930s...
  
  
• Scotty Beckett
  Scotty Beckett
  Scott Hastings "Scotty" Beckett was an American child actor. He starred in the Our Gang and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series.-Early career:...
  
  
• Jackie Lynn Taylor
  Jackie Lynn Taylor
  Jackie Lynn Taylor is an American former child actress born in Compton, California. She is 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.She joined KTTV in 1951 as the hostess of the...
  
  
• Marianne Edwards
  Marianne Edwards
  Marianne Edwards was a child actress who appeared in the Our Gang film series from 1934 to 1936. She also appeared in several feature films in the 30's, including Gold Diggers Of 1933, Babes In Toyland with Laurel & Hardy, Stand Up and Cheer! with Shirley Temple and The Wizard Of Oz.Edwards' most...
  
  
• Leonard Kibrick
  Leonard Kibrick
  Leonard Kibrick , 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...
  
  
• Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas (joined in 1934, became Stymie's replacement in 1935)
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  

1935

Late transitional period

• George "Spanky" McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  
• Scotty Beckett
  Scotty Beckett
  Scott Hastings "Scotty" Beckett was an American child actor. He starred in the Our Gang and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series.-Early career:...
  
  
• Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
• Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker 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....
  
  
• Leonard Kibrick
  Leonard Kibrick
  Leonard Kibrick , 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...
  
  
• Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and 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.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
   (joined in 1935, became Scotty Beckett's replacement in 1936)
• Harold Switzer
  Harold Switzer
  Harold Frederick Switzer was an American child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as an extra...
  
  
• Darla Hood
  Darla Hood
  Darla Jean Hood was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner...
  
  
• Eugene "Porky" Lee
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  

1936-1939

Late Roach/Early MGM period

• George "Spanky" McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  
• Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and 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.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
  
• Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
• Darla Hood
  Darla Hood
  Darla Jean Hood was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner...
  
  
• Eugene "Porky" Lee
• Tommy "Butch" Bond
  Tommy Bond
  Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.-Early years...
  
   (replaced Leonard in 1937)
• Sidney "The Woim" Kibrick
  Sidney Kibrick
  Sidney Kibrick 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 the late Leonard Kibrick,...
  
  
• Darwood "Waldo" Kaye
• Gary "Junior" Jasgur
  Gary Jasgur
  Gary Jasgur was an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short film series from 1937 to 1939.-Career:Dark-haired Jasgur was cast as "Junior", the infant brother of either Spanky or Darla...
  
  
• Harold Switzer
  Harold Switzer
  Harold Frederick Switzer was an American child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as an extra...
  
  
• Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1938 to 1941....
  
  
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  
• orrin e hill (wheezer)

1939-1942

Transitional MGM period

• George "Spanky" McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  
• Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and 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.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
  
• Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
• Darla Hood
  Darla Hood
  Darla Jean Hood was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner...
  
  
• Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1938 to 1941....
  
  
• Mickey Gubitosi
  Robert Blake (actor)
  Robert Blake is an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.-Early...
  
   (replaced first Junior, and then Porky, in 1939)
• Billy "Froggy" Laughlin
  Billy Laughlin
  William Robert "Billy" Laughlin was an American child actor. He is best known for playing the character Froggy in the Our Gang short films in its final stretch, from 1940 to 1944.-Career:...
  
   (joined in 1940, replaced Alfalfa in 1941)
• Janet Burston
  Janet Burston
  Janet Burston was an American child actress who was the final leading lady in the Our Gang short subjects series, replacing Darla Hood in 1942.-Career:...
  
   (made guest appearances from 1940 until she replaced Darla in 1942)

1942-1944

Late MGM period

• Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
• Billy "Froggy" Laughlin
  Billy Laughlin
  William Robert "Billy" Laughlin was an American child actor. He is best known for playing the character Froggy in the Our Gang short films in its final stretch, from 1940 to 1944.-Career:...
  
  
• Bobby "Mickey" Blake
  Robert Blake (actor)
  Robert Blake is an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.-Early...
  
   (Gubitosi changed his name in 1942)
• Janet Burston
  Janet Burston
  Janet Burston was an American child actress who was the final leading lady in the Our Gang short subjects series, replacing Darla Hood in 1942.-Career:...
  
  
• Violet the Goat

Other notable Our Gang kids

• Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and popular singer, and was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress...
  
  , the first African-American actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
  Academy Award for Best Actress
  Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
  
  , made her film debut as an extra in Teacher's Beau in 1935.
• Annabella Logan, later famous as jazz singer Annie Ross
  Annie Ross
  Annie Ross is an English jazz singer, and actress, best known as a member of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.-Early years:...
  
  , sings one of the musical numbers in Our Gang Follies of 1938
  Our Gang Follies of 1938
  Our Gang Follies of 1938 is a 1937 American musical short subject, the 161st short subject entry in Hal Roach's Our Gang series...
  
  .
• Philip Hurlic, a successful child actor, had small parts in several late-1930s Our Gang shorts, and temporarily took Buckwheat's place as a member of the main cast for 1938's Feed 'em and Weep
  Feed 'em and Weep
  Feed 'em and Weep is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 166th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  .
• Sonny Bupp
  Sonny Bupp
  Sonny Bupp was an American child film actor and businessman.Born as Moyer MacClaren Bupp in New York City, "Sonny" Bupp appeared in over 60 films during his career, including two Our Gang comedies, 1935's Our Gang Follies of 1936 and 1938's Men in Fright.He appeared in Citizen Kane and was the...
  
  , also a successful child actor, played bit roles in several late-1930s Our Gang shorts, including a prominent role in 1938's Men in Fright
  Men In Fright
  Men in Fright is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by George Sidney. Produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 172nd Our Gang short to be released.-Plot:...
  
  .
• Juanita Quigley
  Juanita Quigley
  Juanita Quigley is a former child actress in American motion pictures of the 1930s and 1940s.-Career:Juanita Quigley was billed as Baby Jane in several early roles. She first attracted major attention as Claudette Colbert's three-year-old daughter in Imitation of Life...
  
  , a successful child actress, appeared in two MGM Our Gang shorts as "Sally": 1940's The New Pupil
  The New Pupil
  The New Pupil is a 1940 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 190th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  and 1942's Going to Press
  Going to Press
  Going to Press is a 1942 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 204th Our Gang short that was released.-Synopsis:...
  
  .
• Darryl Hickman
  Darryl Hickman
  Darryl Gerard Hickman is an American film and television actor, former television executive, and child star of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
  
  , a successful child actor, made a featured guest appearance in Going to Press
  Going to Press
  Going to Press is a 1942 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 204th Our Gang short that was released.-Synopsis:...
  
  . His younger brother Dwayne Hickman
  Dwayne Hickman
  Dwayne Bernard Hickman is a former American actor and television executive at CBS.He is known primarily for his "teenage" actor roles on television sitcoms. The naturally brown-headed Hickman is best known for playing Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's crazy teenaged nephew, on the popular 1950s...
  
  , later famous as the star of TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
  The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
  The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Debbie...
  
  , had a bit part in another 1942 short, Melodies Old and New
  Melodies Old and New
  Melodies Old and New is a 1942 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 203rd Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  .

Recurring adult actors

Many of the regular adult actors in Our Gang also frequently appeared in other Hal Roach comedies, including the Charley Chase

Charley Chase

Charley Chase was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies...

 and Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...

 series:

• June Marlowe
  June Marlowe
  June Marlowe , was an American actress, who appeared in six Our Gang short subjects as the lovely schoolteacher Miss Crabtree.-Career:...
  
   as Miss Crabtree, the schoolteacher (1930-1932)
• Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa, Ontario.-Career:...
  
   as Miss Lawrence/Miss Jones, the schoolteacher (1936-1937)
• Edgar Kennedy
  Edgar Kennedy
  Edgar Livingston Kennedy was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper...
  
   as Kennedy the cop (1929-1930)
• Emerson Treacy
  Emerson Treacy
  -Career:Treacy was teamed with comedienne Gay Seabrook to form the double-act Treacy and Seabrook. The team was very successful on radio and in theater during the early 1930s, with routines similar to those of real husband-and-wife team Burns and Allen....
  
   and Gay Seabrook
  Gay Seabrook
  -Career:Seabrook was teamed with comedian Emerson Treacy to form the double-act Treacy and Seabrook. The team was very successful on radio and in theater during the early 1930s, with routines similar to those of real husband-and-wife team Burns and Allen....
  
   as Spanky's parents (1933)
• George and Olive Brasno (1934's Shrimps for a Day
  Shrimps for a Day
  Shrimps for a Day is a 1934 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gus Meins. It was the 133rd Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  and 1936's Arbor Day
  Arbor Day (film)
  Arbor Day is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer. It was the 145th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
  
   as Buckwheat's mother (1935-1936)
• William Newell and Barbara Bedford
  Barbara Bedford (actor)
  Barbara Bedford was born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and was educated in Chicago, where she graduated from Lake View High School....
  
   as Alfalfa's parents (1938-1940)
• Jimmy Finlayson
  Jimmy Finlayson
  James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression...
  
  
• Charlie Hall
• James C. Morton
  James C. Morton
  James C. Morton was an American character actor. He appeared in 187 films between 1922 and 1943.-Career:...
  
  
• Mae Busch
  Mae Busch
  Mae Busch was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife.-Early life and career:Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was...
  
  
• Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur was an American stage and motion picture actor.-Early years:Born John Lennox Arthur Williams in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Arthur was a veteran of twenty-five years on stage before he made his screen debut in 1923's The Unknown Purple...
  
  
• Clarence Wilson
• Billy Gilbert
  Billy Gilbert
  Billy Gilbert was an American comedian and actor known for his comic sneeze routines. He appeared in over 200 feature films, short subjects and television shows starting in 1929. He is not to be confused with silent film actor Billy Gilbert Billy Gilbert (September 12, 1894 – September 23,...
  
  
• Lyle Tayo
  Lyle Tayo
  Lyle Tayo was an American film actress who appeared in 59 films between 1921 and 1948. Tayo was born in Elmdale, Kansas and died in Hollywood, California. She is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery....
  
  
• Otto Fries
  Otto Fries
  Otto Fries was an American film actor. He appeared in 129 films between 1920 and 1938.-Career:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Fries became a dapper-looking supporting comic with a varied background in medicine shows and vaudeville. He easily transitioned to film in the early 1910s...
  
  
• Richard Daniels
  Richard Daniels
  Richard Daniels , was an American film actor. He appeared in 27 films between 1922 and 1926.He was born in Gwubach, Wales and died in Los Angeles, California...
  
   in various rolls in the silent films
• Franklin Pangborn
  Franklin Pangborn
  Franklin Pangborn was an American comedic 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...
  
  
• Charles McAvoy
• Zeffie Tilbury
  Zeffie Tilbury
  Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury was an English actress-Career:Born in Paddington, Middlesex, England Tilbury was known first on the London stage and later for playing wise or evil older characters in films, such as the distinguished lady gambler at dinner with Garbo in The Single Standard, as Grandma...
  
  
• Claudia Dell
  Claudia Dell
  Claudia Dell was an American showgirl and actress of the stage and Hollywood motion pictures. Her birth name was Claudia Dell Smith. She was born in San Antonio, Texas on January 10, 1910. She attended school in San Antonio and Mexico. Dell was blonde and blue-eyed, with a porcelain face. Her...
  
  

Directors

Hal Roach Studio

• Fred Newmeyer
  Fred C. Newmeyer
  Fred C. Newmeyer was an American actor and film director. A native of Central City, Colorado, he is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing Harold Lloyd movies The Freshman and Girl Shy. Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in...
  
   (Our Gang
  Our Gang (film)
  Our Gang is a 1922 silent short film. It was the third of Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts to be released, although it was the first to enter production. The two-reel short was released to theaters in October 1922 by Pathé....
  
  , The Pinch Singer
  The Pinch Singer
  The Pinch Singer is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer. It was the 142rd Our Gang short that was released, although it was produced before the short which followed it on the release schedule, Divot Diggers.-Plot:...
  
  and Arbor Day
  Arbor Day (film)
  Arbor Day is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer. It was the 145th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  , 1937 short Mail and Female
  Mail and Female
  Mail and Female is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer. It was the 160th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  , and General Spanky
  General Spanky
  General Spanky is a 1936 American comedy film produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George "Spanky" McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer...
  
  )
• Robert F. McGowan
  Robert F. McGowan
  Robert Francis McGowan 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.-Career:...
  
   (1922 - 1933; Divot Diggers
  Divot Diggers
  Divot Diggers is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan; It was the 142nd Our Gang short to be released.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Robert A. McGowan
  Robert A. McGowan
  Robert Anthony McGowan was an American screenwriter and film director.-Biography: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...
  
   (1926 - 1930) (Robert F.'s nephew, usually credited as "Anthony Mack")
• Ray McCarey
  Ray McCarey
  Raymond Benedict "Ray" McCarey was an American film director. He began working at Hal Roach Studios, where he did work on short films with Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy. Most of his feature film work consisted of "B" pictures and low-budget films...
  
   (Free Eats
  Free Eats
  Free Eats is a 1932 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Ray McCarey. It was the 112th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Gus Meins
  Gus Meins
  Gus Meins was a German-American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.-Career:...
  
   (1934 - 1936)
• Gordon Douglas
  Gordon Douglas (director)
  Gordon Douglas was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City.-Hal Roach and Our Gang:...
  
   (1936 - 1938 and General Spanky
  General Spanky
  General Spanky is a 1936 American comedy film produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George "Spanky" McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer...
  
  )
• James W. Horne
  James W. Horne
  James Wesley Horne was an early American actor, screenwriter and film director. He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later....
  
   (When the Wind Blows
  When the Wind Blows (1930 film)
  When the Wind Blows is a 1930 Our Gang short comedy film directed by James W. Horne. It was the 97th Our Gang short to be released.-Plot:It is a windy spring night. A man tells Kennedy the cop that it is a fine night for a murder or robbery...
  
  )
• James Parrott
  James Parrott
  James Parrott , was an American actor and film director; and the younger brother of film comedian Charley Chase.-Early years:...
  
   (Washee Ironee
  Washee Ironee
  Washee Ironee is a 1934 Our Gang short comedy film directed by James Parrott. It was the 131st Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Nate Watt
  Nate Watt
  Nate Watt was an American film director. He directed 30 films between 1916 and 1961.-Selected filmography:* The Man Who Would Not Die * Hopalong Cassidy Returns * Three Men in a Tub...
  
   (Three Men in a Tub
  Three Men in a Tub
  Three Men in a Tub is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Nate Watt. It was the 164th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  and The Awful Tooth
  The Awful Tooth
  The Awful Tooth is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Nate Watt. It was the 167th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  )

MGM

• Gordon Douglas
  Gordon Douglas (director)
  Gordon Douglas was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City.-Hal Roach and Our Gang:...
  
   (The Little Ranger
  The Little Ranger
  The Little Ranger is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 169th Our Gang short that was released...
  
  , Aladdin's Lantern
  Aladdin's Lantern
  Alladin's Lantern is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 171st Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  )
• George Sidney
  George Sidney
  George Sidney was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Career:...
  
   (1938 - 1939)
• Edward L. Cahn (1939 - 1942; Three Smart Guys
  Three Smart Guys
  Three Smart Guys is a 1943 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 217th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Herbert Glazer (1942 - 1943)
• Sam Baerwitz (Calling All Kids
  Calling All Kids
  Calling All Kids is a 1943 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Sam Baerwitz. It was the 214th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Cy Endfield
  Cy Endfield
  Cyril Raker Endfield was an American screenwriter, film director, theatre director, author, magician and inventor, based in Britain from 1953.- Biography :...
  
   (Radio Bugs
  Radio Bugs
  Radio Bugs is a 1944 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Cyril Endfield. It was the 218th Our Gang short to be released, and the third to last film in the series.-Plot:...
  
  , Dancing Romeo
  Dancing Romeo
  Dancing Romeo is a 1944 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Cyril Endfield. Produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 220th and final Our Gang short to be released.-Plot:...
  
  , Tale of a Dog
  Tale of a Dog
  Tale of a Dog is a 1944 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Cyril Endfield. It was the 219th Our Gang short to be released, and the penultimate film in the series...
  
  )

Cinemaphotographers

• Harry W. Gerstand
• Art Lloyd
  Art Lloyd
  Arthur "Art" Lloyd was an American cameraman and cinematographer who worked for Hal Roach Studios and filmed many of the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang comedies.- External links :...
  
  
• F.E. Hershey
• Ernest "Hap" Depew
• Francis Corby
• Kenneth Peach
  Kenneth Peach
  Kenneth D. Peach, Sr. was an American cinematographer.Kenneth D. Peach Sr. was born in El Reno, Indian Territory . Peach entered the film industry in 1923 and became a director of photography in 1926...
  
  
• Harry Forbes
• Walter Lundin
• Milton Krasner
  Milton R. Krasner
  Milton R. Krasner, A.S.C. was a film cinematographer. He won an Academy Award for Three Coins in the Fountain .-Career:...
  
  
• Norbert Brodine
  Norbert Brodine
  Nobert Brodine was a film cinematographer...
  
  
• Len Powers

Film Editors

• Richard Currier
  Richard C. Currier
  Richard C. Currier was an American film editor known principally for his work at Hal Roach Studios.-Biography:...
  
  
• T.J. Crizer
• Bert Jordan
• William Zeigler
• Jack Ogilive
• William Turhune
• Louis McManus
  Louis McManus
  Louis McManus was an American television engineer, film editor, and designer of the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known as the designer for the appearance of the Emmy award and symbol for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.During the 1930s, McManus worked primarily as an editor and edited...
  
  
• Robert Crandall
• Ray Snyder

Key writers

• H.M. Walker (1922 - 1932)
• Walter Lantz
  Walter Lantz
  Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.-Early years and start in animation:...
  
   (mid-1920s)
• Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...
  
    (early to mid-1920s)
• Frank Capra
  Frank Capra
  Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...
  
    (mid-1920s)
• Charley Chase
  Charley Chase
  Charley Chase was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies...
  
   (early 1920s)
• Frank Tashlin
  Frank Tashlin
  Frank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.-Animator:...
  
   (mid-1930s)
• Hal Roach
  Hal Roach
  Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...
  
   (1922 - mid 1930s)
• Robert F. McGowan
  Robert F. McGowan
  Robert Francis McGowan 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.-Career:...
  
   (1922 - 1933)
• Hal Law (wrote most of the MGM shorts)
• Robert A. McGowan
  Robert A. McGowan
  Robert Anthony McGowan was an American screenwriter and film director.-Biography: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...
  
   (wrote most of the MGM shorts)

Surviving cast members

As of June 26, 2011, the following Our Gang kids are still living:

• Robert Blake
  Robert Blake (actor)
  Robert Blake is an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.-Early...
  
  
• Jean Darling
  Jean Darling
  Jean Darling is a former American child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. She remains the last surviving cast member from the silent era.-Career:...
  
  
• Marianne Edwards
  Marianne Edwards
  Marianne Edwards was a child actress who appeared in the Our Gang film series from 1934 to 1936. She also appeared in several feature films in the 30's, including Gold Diggers Of 1933, Babes In Toyland with Laurel & Hardy, Stand Up and Cheer! with Shirley Temple and The Wizard Of Oz.Edwards' most...
  
  
• Mildred Kornman
  Mildred Kornman
  Mildred Kornman , also known as Ricki VanDusen, is a former American child actress.Mildred, the younger sister of Mary Kornman, leading lady of the silent film Our Gang series, was featured as a regular in the series from 1926–1928 and made more appearances from 1929 until 1935...
  
  
• Sidney Kibrick
  Sidney Kibrick
  Sidney Kibrick 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 the late Leonard Kibrick,...
  
  
• Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1938 to 1941....
  
  
• Dickie Moore
• Jackie Lynn Taylor
  Jackie Lynn Taylor
  Jackie Lynn Taylor is an American former child actress born in Compton, California. She is 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.She joined KTTV in 1951 as the hostess of the...
  
  
• Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker
  Jerry Tucker 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....
  
  
• Jack Hanlon
• Dick Jones
• Peggy Lynch
  Margaret Kerry
  Margaret Kerry 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.-Career:...
  
  
• Peggy Ahern
• Lassie Lou Ahern
• Priscilla Montgomery
• Valerie Lee
• Hugh Chapman
• Leon Tyler
• Annie Ross
  Annie Ross
  Annie Ross is an English jazz singer, and actress, best known as a member of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.-Early years:...
  
  
• Joy Wurgaft
• Patsy Barry
• Jackie Horner
• Clyde Willson
  Clyde Willson
  Clyde Willson in Omaha, Nebraska, is an American former child actor, now a retired biochemist. Clyde moved to Hollywood in 1939 and began working for Hal Roach Studios. Clyde had small roles in "Vigil in the Night", "Babes in Wonderland" and "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante"...
  
  
• Philip Hurlic
• Payne Johnson
• Laura June Kenny
• Patsy Britten
• Darryl Hickman
  Darryl Hickman
  Darryl Gerard Hickman is an American film and television actor, former television executive, and child star of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dwayne Hickman
  Dwayne Hickman
  Dwayne Bernard Hickman is a former American actor and television executive at CBS.He is known primarily for his "teenage" actor roles on television sitcoms. The naturally brown-headed Hickman is best known for playing Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's crazy teenaged nephew, on the popular 1950s...
  
  
• Donnie "Beezer" Smith
• Dickie Jackson