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Auto Antics (1939)
Character: Butch
The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.
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Practical Jokers (1938)
Character: Butch
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
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Gobs of Trouble (1935)
Character: N/A
Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
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Dog Daze (1939)
Character: Butch
The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.
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Cousin Wilbur (1939)
Character: Butch
Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
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Alimony Aches (1935)
Character: Ronald, May's Son
Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
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Mister Smarty (1936)
Character: Smaller Bowzer Son
Mr. Bowser believes that he'll be able to clean the house better than his wife can.
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Knee Action (1937)
Character: N/A
Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investors, but his idiot stepson proceeds to disrupt the demonstration.
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You Said a Hatful! (1934)
Character: Kid on train
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
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Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse (1984)
Character: Himself / Tommy / Butch
A behind the scenes look at Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies, complete with interviews from several former cast and crew members of the series.
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Duel Personalities (1939)
Character: Butch (uncredited)
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
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Football Romeo (1938)
Character: Butch
Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.
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The Marriage Bargain (1935)
Character: Jimmy Sparks
A young woman marries a man she detests in order to save her father from a murder charge.
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Let's Talk Turkey (1939)
Character: Little Otto
It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitchen of chef M.O. Cullen who demonstrates the proper way to carve the bird, spoon out the stuffing, and lay out the platter. Back to Abner, who's missed Cullen's lesson, so he makes a fine mess. Can this marriage survive?
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The Little Ranger (1938)
Character: Butch
Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival (2001)
Character: Butch
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.
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I Love to Singa (1936)
Character: Owl Jolson (voice)
I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owl who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a lighthearted tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer.
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Fishy Tales (1937)
Character: Butch
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
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A Cartoonist's Nightmare (1935)
Character: Beans (voice) (uncredited)
A cartoonist falls asleep at the drawing board and into the clutches of his own villains, until Beans the Cat comes to the rescue.
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Westward Whoa (1936)
Character: Beans (voice)
Porky Pig and his friends Beans, Little Kitty and Ham and Ex, travel as pioneers toward the western frontier. As their wagon travels across the prairie, Ham and Ex cause trouble by pretending to be Indians. Then the real Indians show up!
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Came the Brawn (1938)
Character: Butch
Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his opponent.
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Boom Boom (1936)
Character: Beans (voice)
World War I, apparently. There is a series of quick blackout gags, including a soldier that throws the pin...
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Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
Character: Joey Pepper
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
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Rushin' Ballet (1937)
Character: Butch
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
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Wild Poses (1933)
Character: Tommy
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
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Man from Frisco (1944)
Character: Russ Kennedy
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
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Bedtime Worries (1933)
Character: Tommy
Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.
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Party Fever (1938)
Character: Butch
Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor For A Day. Whoever becomes Mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.
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The Major Lied 'Til Dawn (1938)
Character: Little Boy (voice)
We open on a big game hunter telling a little boy (a caricture of child star Freddie Bartholomew) stories about hunting in the jungles of Africa. He tells him a story about a day he was hunting there. The game hunter gets help from African natives to catch some animals, with some odd results. Sight gags include an elephant who can't remember something he was supposed to do, and the game hunter riding a elephant and having to "shift gears" like an automobile to get up a steep hill.
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Hot Rod (1950)
Character: Jack Blodgett
A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in a hit-and-run accident and he must reconcile with his father.
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New York Town (1941)
Character: Willie (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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Don't Look Now (1936)
Character: Cuckoo Clock / Dan Cupid / Devil Boy (voice) (uncredited)
It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.
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Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)
Character: Jimmy Olsen
Superman battles Lex Luthor, who is using a teleportation device and a new identity as Atom Man in his criminal plans.
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Tokyo Joe (1949)
Character: Fingerprint Sergeant (uncredited)
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
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Honky Donkey (1934)
Character: Tommy
Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.
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Any Number Can Play (1949)
Character: Mike (uncredited)
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
Character: Jerry
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
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Gas House Kids Go West (1947)
Character: Chimp
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
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Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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Next Time We Love (1936)
Character: Pesky Kid (uncredited)
A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
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Big Town Scandal (1948)
Character: Waldo 'Dum Dum' Riggs
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
Character: Joey Pepper
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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I'll Take Vanilla (1934)
Character: Junior
Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
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Framing Youth (1937)
Character: Butch
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.
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The First Round-Up (1934)
Character: Tommy
The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.
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The Kid from Borneo (1933)
Character: Tommy
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
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Mush and Milk (1933)
Character: Tommy
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
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Block-Heads (1938)
Character: Neighbor's Son
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
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Silly Billies (1936)
Character: Student
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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Kid Millions (1934)
Character: Boy in the Barge (uncredited)
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Hideaway (1937)
Character: Oscar Peterson
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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This Land Is Mine (1943)
Character: Pug-nosed School Bully
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Superman (1948)
Character: Jimmy Olsen
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
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Champagne Waltz (1937)
Character: Otto, Singing Student
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.
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Washee Ironee (1934)
Character: Tommy
Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help him clean up.
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Hollywood Capers (1935)
Character: Beans (voice) (uncredited)
W.C.Fields enters the Warmer Bros. Studio. Beans tries to drive in, but the guard throws him and his car against a tree. Charlie Chaplin drives in, followed by Oliver Hardy on foot - but we see that it's really Beans in disguise. Oliver Owl is directing a picture; Beans sneaks onto the stage. He's watching from a catwalk when someone knocks him off, into the middle of the scene. Beans is thrown off the set, right into the set of a Frankenstein movie. He accidentally brings the robotic monster to life, and it crashes into the original studio, eating the camera. Beans tries to stop the monster, but is sent flying. He lands against a wind machine. which chops up the monster.
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Rosalie (1937)
Character: Mickey (uncredited)
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)
Character: Tommy (uncredited)
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Page Miss Glory (1936)
Character: Abner (voice) (uncredited)
While the rural town of Hicksville anticipates the arrival of one Miss Glory, the bellhop at her modest hotel falls asleep and dreams of paging her at a luxurious metropolitan high rise hotel.
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Out West with the Peppers (1940)
Character: Joey Pepper
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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I'd Love to Take Orders from You (1936)
Character: Young Scarecrow (voice)
Quitting time for a scarecrow. He gets home, and his little boy scares him. To the title song, he teaches his son the basics of scare-crowing. Bedtime for junior; he prays to be a big scarecrow, just like his daddy. The next morning he sneaks out before anyone else is up and practices scaring a rooster, a squirrel, and a rabbit. He takes up his father's place, but the crows are not impressed; in fact, the crow goes on the attack.
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The Cracked Ice Man (1934)
Character: (uncredited)
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew (1939)
Character: Joey Pepper
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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Alpine Antics (1936)
Character: Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Prologue: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter. But so does a bad guy (who looks more than a little like Disney's Pete). The bad guy sabotages the other contestants in various ways, takes short cuts, etc. But Beans manages to tie up the bad guy in his own trip line. A duck riding a dachshund knocks the bad guy out for a while; he and Beans trade places a few more times before Beans wins the race, just barely.
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Libeled Lady (1936)
Character: Waif (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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The Phantom Ship (1936)
Character: Beans (voice / uncredited)
Uncle Beans and the kids are off to visit a haunted ship ('The Phantom') trapped in the ice, hoping to find pirate treasure. They encounter all manner of ghosts and goblins, but eventually find what they've been looking for. When Beans tries to warm up by throwing some chairs in a stove and lighting it, he thaws out a pair of pirates that chase the trio around. They treasure-seekers are eventually forced back into their plane and they decide to fly away.
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Captain Spanky's Show Boat (1939)
Character: Butch
An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Dandies" and a "meller dramer" entitled "Out in the Snow You Go." All is not smooth sailing however, as Butch seeks revenge for having been excluded from the cast.
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Twice Blessed (1945)
Character: Horace
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
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City Streets (1938)
Character: Tommy Devlin
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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