Joe Cobb
Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Cobb auditioned for producer Hal Roach's comedy series at the age of five. He appeared in 86 Our Gang episodes during seven years, and had three guest appearances in the serial in the 1930s. His first Our Gang short was The Big Show. Cobb appeared in the Our Gang series' last silent film, Saturday's Lesson, and its first talking short, Small Talk. He was a recognizable character, with chubby cheeks and a trademark beanie cap. Some sources indicate that his final film with the Gang was Bouncing Babies; however, he does not appear onscreen in that short. His last film as a regular cast member was the previous entry Lazy Days, but he would also return for cameos in three more shorts over the years: Fish Hooky, Pay as You Exit, and Reunion in Rhythm. After his acting career ended in the early 1940s, Cobb became an assembler for North American Aviation, a division of Rockwell International. He retired in 1981. Cobb died of natural causes on May 21, 2002.
Girl Shy
as Boy in Tailor Shop (uncredited)Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a...
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A Yank at Oxford
as Boy with Drum (uncredited)A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and...
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The Our Gang Story
as Joe (archive footage)Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a...
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Bouncing Babies
as Joe (unconfirmed)With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.
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Boxing Gloves
as JoeThe Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would...
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Cat, Dog & Co.
as JoeFarina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the...
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It's a Bear
as JoeThe kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they...
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Lazy Days
as JoeWhile the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in...
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery...
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Thundering Fleas
as JoeThe kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea...
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Small Talk
as JoeThe gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the...
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Lodge Night
as JoeThis one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan...
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Derby Day
as JoeAfter the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
as JoeFeaturing the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than...
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Good Cheer
as JoeOn Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns...
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Railroadin'
as JoeThe gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer,...
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Baby Brother
as JoeJoe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...
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Dogs of War!
as JoeThe gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when...
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Cradle Robbers
as JoeThe boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters....
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The Love Bug
as JoeFarina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the...
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Reunion in Rhythm
as JoeThe gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
as TubbyIn this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common....
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Fish Hooky
as JoeA truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
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Tire Trouble
as JoeThis Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little...
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The Big Show
as JoeThe gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a...
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Your Own Back Yard
as JoeYour Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It...
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Love My Dog
as JoeFarina Hoskins discovers a stray dog. Joe Cobb suggests that he and Farina take the dog to the...
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Shivering Spooks
as JoeThe kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells...
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The Spanking Age
as JoeMary Ann Jackson and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins are the children of a widowed inventor who are...
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Boys to Board
as JoeA kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up...
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Pay As You Exit
as Fat KidThe "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when...
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Commencement Day
as JoeCentering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room...
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Dog Days
as JoeThe boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in...
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Barnum & Ringling, Inc.
as JoeThe kids decide to put on a circus at the local hotel. Seeing various pets and other domestic...
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Circus Fever
as JoeThe circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members...
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Election Day
as JoeThis film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes....
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A Pleasant Journey
as JoeErnie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches...
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Better Movies
as JoeThe gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There...
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July Days
as uncreditedThe gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual,...
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Tired Business Men
as JoeTired Business Men is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It...
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Baby Clothes
as JoeMr. and Mrs. Weedle are desperate to find two babies, for their rich uncle has sent them money...
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Fast Company
as JoeFast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal...
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Wiggle Your Ears
as JoeThis is a really strange, but thought provoking film. Here, beloved Mary literally lets Harry...
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Seein' Things
as JoeAt the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells...
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The Glorious Fourth
as JoeIt's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at...
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Crazy House
as JoeCrazy House is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was...
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Noisy Noises
as JoeJoe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert...
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Mary, Queen of Tots
as JoeA couple makes dolls modeled on neighborhood kids. A gardener at a mansion buys four of them for...
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Back Stage
as JoeThe gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them...
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Yale vs. Harvard
as JoeThe Gang turn to playing football, and face tough competition against the Gas House Garlics.
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The 'Fraidy Cat
as Member of the Gang (uncredited)Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the...
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War Feathers
as JoeWhile on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy...
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Telling Whoppers
as JoeFarina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear...
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Spook Spoofing
as JoeAs a joke, several members of the gang convince Farina, who is "brave but superstitious", that...
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Young Oldfield
as BoyJimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he...
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The Buccaneers
as JoeThis Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship...
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Chicken Feed
as JoeChicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was...
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Dog Heaven
as JoePoor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with...
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The Holy Terror
as JoeMary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of...
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Official Officers
as JoeThe kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard....
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Seeing the World
as JoeIn this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to...
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Saturday's Lesson
as JoeA man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
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Big Business
as JoeIn this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets...
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One Wild Ride
as JoeThe gang has a taxi, consisting of an old Model T with no engine, pushed by a horse. When the...
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The Sun Down Limited
as JoeThe gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with...
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Shootin' Injuns
as JoeMany of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members...
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Stage Fright
as JoeAuthor Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The...
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1
as uncreditedThe Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 contains the first 11 Our Gang sound...
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The Big Town
as JoeThe gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next...
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Bring Home the Turkey
as JoeHabitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find...
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The Mysterious Mystery!
as JoeMickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two...
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Jubilo, Jr.
as JoeA young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a...
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Sunday Calm
as Joe TuckerThe kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten...
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Little Mother
as JoeLittle Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan....
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Rainy Days
as JoeJay and Wheezer are left alone on a rainy afternoon when Mom goes out to run errands. But when...
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The Ol' Gray Hoss
as JoeThis story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps...
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Fair and Muddy
as JoeLiving in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a...
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Growing Pains
as JoeMary Ann has a liking toward Wheezer. Her mother tells her that if she gives him cod liver oil,...
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Boys Will Be Joys
as JoeAdults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in...
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Monkey Business
as JoeAn abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and...
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Ten Years Old
as JoeTen Years Old is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was...
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Edison, Marconi & Co.
as JoeWith Jay Edison as the inventor and Wheezer his assistant, the gang contrived an automobile of...
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The Old Wallop
as JoeWheezer likes to hit people on the nose, and his folks encourage him to do so. Then the Gang...
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School Begins
as JoeOne of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins...
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The Smile Wins
as JoeFarina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business,...
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A Tough Winter
as uncreditedAn ice-cold Snub adopts a gamin and her brother; A mean landlord seeking rent complicates...
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Heebee Jeebees
as JoeA hypnotist comes to town and puts the gang in animal-like trances. Now that the spell is off,...
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Uncle Tom's Uncle
as Joe / 'Uncle Tom'The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's...
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Playin' Hookey
as JoeWheezer gets excited watching his dog Pansy attack and rip apart the chickens and furniture in...
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Olympic Games
as JoeWhile the world watches the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the Rascals gather at the flats for...
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Buried Treasure
as JoeThe Rascals take their homemade boat on a search for treasure and crash a movie set.
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Fast Freight
as JoeFast Freight is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film. It was the 85th Our Gang short that...
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