Tommy Bond

Tommy Bond

Born: September 16, 1926
Died: September 24, 2005
in Dallas, Texas, USA
Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.

Movies for Tommy Bond...

Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Title: Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Character: Butch
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
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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Title: E! True Hollywood Story
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: TV
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
Title: Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
Character: Himself / Tommy / Butch
Released: January 12, 1984
Type: Movie
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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Hot Rod
Title: Hot Rod
Character: Jack Blodgett
Released: October 22, 1950
Type: Movie
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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Atom Man vs. Superman
Title: Atom Man vs. Superman
Character: Jimmy Olsen
Released: July 20, 1950
Type: Movie
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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Intruder in the Dust
Title: Intruder in the Dust
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1949
Type: Movie
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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Tokyo Joe
Title: Tokyo Joe
Character: Fingerprint Sergeant
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
An American returns to Tokyo to try to pick up threads of his pre-World War II life there but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
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Superman
Title: Superman
Character: Jimmy Olsen
Released: July 15, 1948
Type: Movie
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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Big Town Scandal
Title: Big Town Scandal
Character: Waldo 'Dum Dum' Riggs
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Title: The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Character: Chimp
Released: August 23, 1947
Type: Movie
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
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Gas House Kids Go West
Title: Gas House Kids Go West
Character: Chimp
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
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Twice Blessed
Title: Twice Blessed
Character: Horace
Released: May 31, 1945
Type: Movie
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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Man from Frisco
Title: Man from Frisco
Character: Russ Kennedy
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
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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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Pug-nosed School Bully
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
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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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: Willie (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
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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Adventure in Washington
Title: Adventure in Washington
Character: Peewee Haynes
Released: May 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
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A Little Bit of Heaven
Title: A Little Bit of Heaven
Character: Jerry
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
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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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: Joey Pepper
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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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Out West with the Peppers
Title: Out West with the Peppers
Character: Joey Pepper
Released: June 30, 1940
Type: Movie
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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Bubbling Troubles
Title: Bubbling Troubles
Character: Butch
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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Five Little Peppers at Home
Title: Five Little Peppers at Home
Character: Joey Pepper
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
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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Let's Talk Turkey
Title: Let's Talk Turkey
Character: Little Otto
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
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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Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Title: Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Character: Butch (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
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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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Joey Pepper
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
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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Dog Daze
Title: Dog Daze
Character: Butch
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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
Title: Cousin Wilbur
Character: Butch
Released: April 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
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Duel Personalities
Title: Duel Personalities
Character: Butch (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
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Practical Jokers
Title: Practical Jokers
Character: Butch
Released: December 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
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Football Romeo
Title: Football Romeo
Character: Butch
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Party Fever
Title: Party Fever
Character: Butch
Released: August 27, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Block-Heads
Title: Block-Heads
Character: Neighbor's Son
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
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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The Major Lied 'Til Dawn
Title: The Major Lied 'Til Dawn
Character: Little Boy (voice)
Released: August 13, 1938
Type: Movie
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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The Little Ranger
Title: The Little Ranger
Character: Butch
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Tommy Devlin
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Came the Brawn
Title: Came the Brawn
Character: Butch
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Rosalie
Title: Rosalie
Character: Mickey (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
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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Framing Youth
Title: Framing Youth
Character: Butch
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
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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Fishy Tales
Title: Fishy Tales
Character: Butch
Released: August 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
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Hideaway
Title: Hideaway
Character: Oscar Peterson
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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Rushin' Ballet
Title: Rushin' Ballet
Character: Butch (as Our Gang)
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
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Champagne Waltz
Title: Champagne Waltz
Character: Otto, Singing Student
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
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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Knee Action
Title: Knee Action
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
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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Don't Look Now
Title: Don't Look Now
Character: Cuckoo Clock / Dan Cupid / Devil Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Libeled Lady
Title: Libeled Lady
Character: Waif (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
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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I Love to Singa
Title: I Love to Singa
Character: Owl Jolson (voice)
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Mister Smarty
Title: Mister Smarty
Character: Smaller Bowzer Son
Released: July 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Mr. Bowser believes that he'll be able to clean the house better than his wife can.
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Westward Whoa
Title: Westward Whoa
Character: Beans (voice)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Student
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Abner (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A bellhop in the best hotel of a small town awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page her at a first class hotel in New York. In time he is awakened by the manager, because Miss Glory's car has arrived.
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Boom Boom
Title: Boom Boom
Character: Beans (voice)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
World War I, apparently. There is a series of quick blackout gags, including a soldier that throws the pin...
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The Phantom Ship
Title: The Phantom Ship
Character: Beans (voice / uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Alpine Antics
Title: Alpine Antics
Character: Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
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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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Title: The Calling of Dan Matthews
Character: Tommy (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
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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Hollywood Capers
Title: Hollywood Capers
Character: Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
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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A Cartoonist's Nightmare
Title: A Cartoonist's Nightmare
Character: Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
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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Gobs of Trouble
Title: Gobs of Trouble
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
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Alimony Aches
Title: Alimony Aches
Character: Ronald, May's Son
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
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Washee Ironee
Title: Washee Ironee
Character: Tommy
Released: November 13, 1934
Type: Movie
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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You Said a Hatful!
Title: You Said a Hatful!
Character: Kid on train
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
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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Mike Fright
Title: Mike Fright
Character: Tommy
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
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Honky Donkey
Title: Honky Donkey
Character: Tommy
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Wally, the rich kid of Our Gang team, brings his pet mule along with the gang back home.
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The First Round-Up
Title: The First Round-Up
Character: Tommy
Released: May 5, 1934
Type: Movie
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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I'll Take Vanilla
Title: I'll Take Vanilla
Character: Junior
Released: May 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.
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For Pete's Sake!
Title: For Pete's Sake!
Character: Tommy
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
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Hi'–Neighbor!
Title: Hi'–Neighbor!
Character: Tommy
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
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The Cracked Ice Man
Title: The Cracked Ice Man
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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Wild Poses
Title: Wild Poses
Character: Tommy
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
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Beauty and the Bus
Title: Beauty and the Bus
Character: Little Boy Who Draws Winning Ticket (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls win a car in a raffle.
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Bedtime Worries
Title: Bedtime Worries
Character: Tommy
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.
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Mush and Milk
Title: Mush and Milk
Character: Tommy
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
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The Kid from Borneo
Title: The Kid from Borneo
Character: Tommy
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."