Sunshine Sammy Morrison
Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy' Morrison (born Ernest Fredric Morrison) was a popular African American child actor of the Silent films era. Leaving the screen in 1926, he eventually returned for a time, from 1940 to 1944.
In This Our Life
as Black Man in Jail (uncredited)An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining...
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Ghosts on the Loose
as ScrunoThe East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted"...
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Spooks Run Wild
as ScrunoA group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Flying Wild
as ScrunoA group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an...
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
as ScrunoThe East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and...
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Number, Please?
as Little Boy with Whisk Broom (uncredited)While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the...
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Haunted Spooks
as Little Boy (uncredited)After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is...
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp
as ChucklesSheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into...
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Boys of the City
as ScrunoStreet kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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That Gang of Mine
as ScrunoA street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a...
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Gang War
as Gang Member (uncredited)Two mobs fight for control of the jukebox racket.
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Back Stage
as ErnieThe gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them...
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The Buccaneers
as ErnieThis Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship...
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Scruno (archive footage)A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Cradle Robbers
as ErnieThe boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters....
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
as ScrunoThe East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered....
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Dogs of War!
as ErnieThe gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when...
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Get Out and Get Under
as Small Boy (uncredited)The comic adventures of a new car owner.
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Fast Company
as ErnieFast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal...
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Pride of the Bowery
as ScrunoMuggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in...
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Clancy Street Boys
as ScrunoMuggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he...
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The Our Gang Story
as Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a...
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Lodge Night
as ErnieThis one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan...
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Sunday Calm
as ErnieThe kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten...
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Kid Dynamite
as Scruno JacksonThe East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ...
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July Days
as ErnieThe gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual,...
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Stage Fright
as ErnieAuthor Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The...
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The Dippy Dentist
as Messenger BoyThe film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to...
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Let's Get Tough
as ScrunoRejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by...
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One Terrible Day
as Booker T.Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing,...
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Big Business
as Sunshine SammyIn this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets...
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Penrod
as HermanYoung rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the...
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Young Sherlocks
as ErnieThe Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from...
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Park Your Car
as uncreditedA once-act farce about two neighbours who purchase a car that they can use to go on drives with...
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Captain Kiddo
as uncreditedMarie and her friend Billy are playing pirates and Marie is the pirate and Billy is her...
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It's a Bear
as ErnieThe kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they...
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A Quiet Street
as Booker T.The gang mistakenly believes a police patrol is after them for beating up a cop's boy; they wind...
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Derby Day
as Ernie 'Sammy'After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
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The Big Show
as Booker T.The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a...
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Commencement Day
as ErnieCentering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room...
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The Cobbler
as ErnieA cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car...
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Fire Fighters
as Booker T. BaconThe gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet...
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Boys to Board
as ErnieA kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up...
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
as JoeIn I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who...
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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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Tire Trouble
as ErnieThis Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little...
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A Pleasant Journey
as ErnieErnie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches...
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The Champeen
as Sammy JohnsonMickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.
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Run 'Em Ragged
as uncreditedRun ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top...
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Dolly Does Her Bit
as SamboDolly lives with her aunt, who is a seamstress. The child is sent home from school because she...
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Saturday Morning
as SorghumThe Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and...
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Seein' Things
as ErnieAt the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells...
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Whirl o' the West
as SammyA tenderfoot arrives in a western town and the inhabitants give him a rough time.
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Giants vs. Yanks
as ErnieThe gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an...
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The Pickaninny
as Little CasinoThe comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.
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Grab the Ghost
as Servant's ChildAs tens of guests pile out of a wedding ceremony a jilted and bitter rival (Eddie Boland) vows...
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The Sawdust Doll
as SamboSally Lou, the small daughter of village blacksmith Jim Davis, uses her sawdust doll to take the...
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Good Times
as uncreditedGood Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1,...
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