Billie Thomas
Actor · 1931 – 1980 · Los Angeles, California, USA
William "Billie" Thomas Jr. was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang short films from 1934 until the series' end in 1944. He was a native of Los Angeles. Wikipedia
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Movie6.6ComedyWhile the Our Gang kids are enjoying the local swimming hole, a rival group ties all their clothes in knots. Our Gang challenges the meanies, and the two sides have a military-style battle using fruits and vegetables for ammunition.
Fightin' Fools
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.8ComedyFamilyA new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter.
Sprucin' Up
1935 · 8 votes
Movie7.2ComedyFamilyThe gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.
Mama's Little Pirate
1934 · 8 votes
Movie6.8ComedyThe Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from participating because they are not yet old enough. Undeterred, the kids head off on their own unsupervised camping adventure, with comically disastrous results.
Joy Scouts
1939 · 4 votes
Movie6.9ComedyThe gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.
Our Gang Follies of 1936
1935 · 6 votes
MovieDocumentaryJoin all your favorites—Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more—in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
Movie7.3FamilyComedyThe gang prevails upon old-time minstrel impresario Walter Wills to help them stage a fund-raising musical show.
Melodies Old and New
1942 · 3 votes
Movie6.7ComedyThe "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
Dad for a Day
1939 · 3 votes
Movie6.6ComedyFamilyMickey and Froggy are candidates running to be president of the Gang's club. When the vote continues to end in a tie, the club winds up split. Buckwheat then reminds everyone of the lessons learned from Abraham Lincoln when America was once divided.
Election Daze
1943 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAn 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.
Captain Spanky's Show Boat
1939 · 4 votes
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Alfalfa imagines himself being the star football player on a college team. After a big pep rally he ends up letting the team down when his poor grades cause him to be suspended from play.
Time Out for Lessons
1939 · 4 votes
Movie6.4FamilyComedyAlfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
Our Gang Follies of 1938
1937 · 11 votes
Movie7.7ComedyOn Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stumbles on the festivities and has Miss Pipps fired. The Our Gang conspire to save her job by inviting all the parents to a special meeting. There the gang stage a melodrama, with Mr. Pratt portrayed as Simon Legree. The parents react by demoting Mr. Pratt to janitor. They appoint kindly Mr. Swanson, the current janitor, to head the school board. And of course they reinstate Miss Pipps as school teacher. Sometime later, in an act of forgiveness, Miss Pipps and the gang hold a birthday party for Pratt who is then humbled by the experience.
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941 · 3 votes
Movie7.8ComedyThe kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
For Pete's Sake!
1934 · 6 votes
Movie8.0ComedyFamilyThe "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.
Pay As You Exit
1936 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe 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.
The First Round-Up
1934 · 11 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryComedySteve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
Classic Comedy Teams
1986 · 1 votes
Movie6.8ComedyA magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
Shrimps for a Day
1934 · 6 votes
Movie7.0ComedyFamilyThe gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist.
Waldo's Last Stand
1940 · 4 votes
Movie6.6ComedyFamilyWhile playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When the gang visit him in the hospital they are appalled to find the ward populated by many other children injured in automobile accidents. The Our Gang kids resolve to do something about the problem, and thus the "1-2-3-Go Safety Society" is born.
1-2-3-Go!
1941 · 5 votes
Movie6.5ComedyFamilyWhen Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.
Tale of a Dog
1944 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ComedySpanky and Alfalfa try to get Porky's and Buckwheat's fireworks.
Two Too Young
1936 · 4 votes