George McFarland

Born: 1928-10-02

George 'Spanky' McFarland was born on October 2, 1928 in Dallas, Texas, USA as George Robert Phillips McFarland. He was an actor, known for General Spanky (1936), Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937) and Beginner's Luck (1935). He was married to Doris. He died of a heart attack on June 30, 1993 in Grapevine, Texas.


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The Woman in the Window

as Boy Scout who finds Mazard's Body
Released: 1944-10-25

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

as Buddie Tolliver
Released: 1936-03-13

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

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I Escaped from the Gestapo

as Newsboy
Released: 1943-05-14

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though,...

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Mush and Milk

as Spanky
Released: 1933-05-27

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

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Cowboy and the Senorita

as Kid tripping Teddy
Released: 1944-05-13

Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to...

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The Famous Ferguson Case

as Newsboy
Released: 1932-04-19

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by...

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Hollywood’s Children

as Self
Released: 1982-02-24

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-02-25

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...

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O'Shaughnessy's Boy

as Young Stubby
Released: 1935-09-27

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling...

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Night 'n' Gales

as Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: 1937-07-24

Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father...

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Our Gang Follies of 1938

as Spanky
Released: 1937-12-18

Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the...

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Moonrunners

as Precious
Released: 1975-05-14

Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school...

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Beginner's Luck

as Spanky
Released: 1935-02-23

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.

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Bear Facts

as Spanky
Released: 1938-03-05

In an effort to impress Darla, Alfalfa tells her that he's a famous bear trainer. Little does he...

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Arbor Day

as Spanky
Released: 1936-05-02

Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.

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Spanky

as Spanky
Released: 1932-03-25

While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."

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Three Smart Boys

as Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: 1937-05-13

When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an...

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Melodies Old and New

as Spanky
Released: 1942-01-24

The gang prevails upon old-time minstrel impresario Walter Wills to help them stage a...

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Mighty Lak a Goat

as Spanky
Released: 1942-10-10

The Our Gang gets splashed by mud from a passing car and so using some cleaning fluid to get rid...

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Free Eats

as Spanky
Released: 1932-02-13

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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General Spanky

as Spanky Leonard
Released: 1936-12-11

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There...

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Our Gang Follies of 1936

as Spanky
Released: 1935-11-29

The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.

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A Lad an' a Lamp

as Spanky
Released: 1932-12-17

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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The Lucky Corner

as Spanky
Released: 1936-03-14

The gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to...

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Sprucin' Up

as Spanky
Released: 1935-06-01

A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his...

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Kentucky Kernels

as Spanky Milford
Released: 1934-11-02

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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1-2-3-Go!

as Spanky
Released: 1941-04-26

While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car....

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Mike Fright

as Spanky
Released: 1934-08-25

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

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Here Comes the Band

as Spanky Lowry
Released: 1935-08-30

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by...

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Pay As You Exit

as Spanky
Released: 1936-10-23

The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when...

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Anniversary Trouble

as Spanky
Released: 1935-03-13

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's...

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Dad for a Day

as Spanky
Released: 1939-10-20

The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.

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Birthday Blues

as Spanky
Released: 1932-11-12

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

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Washee Ironee

as Spanky
Released: 1934-11-13

Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to...

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Robot Wrecks

as Spanky
Released: 1941-07-12

Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are...

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Good Bad Boys

as Spanky
Released: 1940-09-07

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a...

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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 3

as uncredited
Released: 2021-10-19

From 1929 to 1931, Hal Roach's “Our Gang” series showcasing scruffy but lovable kids was among...

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The Our Gang Story

as Spanky (archive footage)
Released: 1994-01-01

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a...

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Our Gang - Comedy Festival

as Spanky
Released: 2001-05-15

Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than...

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Honky Donkey

as Spanky
Released: 1934-06-02

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.

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The Kid from Borneo

as Spanky
Released: 1933-04-15

The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly...

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Mail and Female

as Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: 1937-11-12

The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decided to create the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" in...

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Dog Daze

as Spanky
Released: 1939-07-01

The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the...

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Wild Poses

as Spanky
Released: 1933-10-28

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

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Going to Press

as Spanky
Released: 1942-03-07

The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by...

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Teacher's Beau

as Spanky
Released: 1935-04-27

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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Bored of Education

as Spanky
Released: 1936-08-20

Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive...

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Spooky Hooky

as Spanky
Released: 1936-12-24

The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then...

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All About Hash

as Spanky
Released: 1940-03-30

Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night....

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Ye Olde Minstrels

as uncredited
Released: 1941-03-18

The gang puts on a show to raise money for the Red Cross.

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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

as Johnny Prentiss
Released: 1934-01-12

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son...

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Forgotten Babies

as Spanky
Released: 1933-03-11

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

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The Aurora Encounter

as Governor
Released: 1986-08-01

In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being...

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Second Childhood

as Spanky
Released: 1936-04-11

A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she...

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Shrimps for a Day

as Spanky
Released: 1934-12-07

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his...

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Tiny Troubles

as Spanky
Released: 1939-02-18

Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget...

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The Pinch Singer

as Spanky
Released: 1936-01-03

Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.

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Came the Brawn

as Spanky
Released: 1938-04-15

Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood...

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Little Papa

as Spanky
Released: 1935-09-21

The gang wants Spanky to come out and play football, but he has to make sure his baby sister is...

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Day of Reckoning

as Johnny Day
Released: 1933-10-26

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught...

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Glove Taps

as Spanky
Released: 1937-02-20

Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight.

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Hi'–Neighbor!

as Spanky
Released: 1934-03-02

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

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The First Round-Up

as Spanky
Released: 1934-05-05

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it...

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Rascal Dazzle

as Spanky
Released: 1981-01-01

The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By...

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Johnny Doughboy

as Spanky McFarland
Released: 1942-12-31

As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career,...

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Seeing Hands

as Fatty, Boy Leading Initiation (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-03

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with...

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Reunion in Rhythm

as Spanky
Released: 1937-01-08

The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.

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The Pigskin Palooka

as Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: 1937-10-23

While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about...

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Hearts Are Thumps

as Spanky
Released: 1937-04-03

The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.

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Canned Fishing

as Spanky
Released: 1938-02-12

Spanky and Alfalfa plot to play hooky so they can go fishing, by pretending that Alfalfa is sick...

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Don't Lie

as Spanky
Released: 1942-04-04

After Buckwheat tells the gang he's seen a big monkey, Spanky, Froggy and Mickey decide to teach...

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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

as Pee Wee
Released: 1938-12-02

Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and...

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Hook and Ladder

as Spanky
Released: 1932-08-27

The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.

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Mama's Little Pirate

as Spanky
Released: 1934-11-02

The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.

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Alfalfa's Double

as Spanky
Released: 1940-01-20

Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.

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Goin' Fishin'

as uncredited
Released: 1940-10-26

The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of...

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Framing Youth

as Spanky
Released: 1937-09-11

Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that...

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Rushin' Ballet

as Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: 1937-04-24

While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.

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Two Too Young

as Spanky
Released: 1936-09-25

Spanky and Alfalfa try to get Porky's and Buckwheat's fireworks.

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One Track Minds

as Spanky (uncredited)
Released: 1933-05-20

Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.

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Wedding Worries

as Spanky (uncredited)
Released: 1941-12-13

The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy...

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The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular

as Spanky
Released: 2011-09-20

The only thing more outrageous than The Little Rascals' antics are their wild imaginations! See...

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Fish Hooky

as Spanky
Released: 1933-01-28

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

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Baby Blues

as Spanky
Released: 1941-02-15

Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child...

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Captain Spanky's Show Boat

as Spanky (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-08

An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to...

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Cousin Wilbur

as Spanky
Released: 1939-04-29

Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's...

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Three Men in a Tub

as Spanky
Released: 1938-03-26

Alfalfa and the gang build their own "speedboat" powered by ducks, and challenge Waldo to a race...

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The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D

as Spanky
Released: 2012-10-30

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Come Back, Miss Pipps

as Spanky
Released: 1941-10-24

On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school...

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Free Wheeling

as Spanky
Released: 1932-09-30

Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.

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The Cracked Ice Man

as Boy who says, "Just skip it"
Released: 1934-01-27

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

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The Big Premiere

as Spanky
Released: 1940-03-09

It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe...

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The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)

as Spanky
Released: 2008-07-01

Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in...

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The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection (Centennial Edition)

as Spanky
Released: 2022-11-15

A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, this 6-disc set also includes over 4 hours of bonus...

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Waldo's Last Stand

as Spanky
Released: 1940-10-05

The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating...

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Roamin' Holiday

as Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: 1937-06-11

The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple.

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Clown Princes

as Spanky
Released: 1939-04-14

The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent...

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Divot Diggers

as Spanky
Released: 1936-02-08

When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.

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The Pooch

as Spanky
Released: 1932-06-11

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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Choo-Choo!

as Spanky
Released: 1932-05-07

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

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Fishy Tales

as Spanky
Released: 1937-08-28

Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.

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Joy Scouts

as Spanky
Released: 1939-06-24

The Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from...

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Little Sinner

as Spanky
Released: 1935-10-25

Rather than go to church, Spanky decides to go fishing - with disastrous results.

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The Little Rascals: The Pirates of Our Gang

as Spanky
Released: 1934-09-28

See the Gang get a lesson on piracy and playing hooky in Shiver My Timbers, watch Spanky take on...

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Rover's Big Chance

as Spanky
Released: 1942-08-22

Our Gang's dog, Rover, gets to audition for a movie studio.

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Doin' Their Bit

as Spanky
Released: 1942-07-18

Our Gang puts on a show for the troops.

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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 6

as uncredited
Released: 2022-06-14

A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, Volume 6 features the talents of George "Spanky"...

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For Pete's Sake!

as Spanky
Released: 1934-04-13

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.

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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 4

as uncredited
Released: 2022-01-18

Remastered, uncut and beautifully restored, now you can see The Little Rascals like never...

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Surprised Parties

as Spanky
Released: 1942-05-30

Since Froggy was born on Leap Year Day, he's upset that he only gets a birthday party once every...

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Bedtime Worries

as Spanky
Released: 1933-09-08

Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his...

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The Little Rascals - CENTENNIAL BONUS DISC

as uncredited
Released: 2023-04-18

The BONUS DISC included in the Centennial Collection.

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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

as uncredited
Released: 2022-04-05

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound...

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Cheers

as Spanky McFarland
First aired: 1982-09-30

The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and...

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