Date of birth: 1928-10-02
Place of birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: George Robert Phillips McFarland, 'Spanky' McFarland, Spanky McFarland, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Spanky, George MacFarlane, Spanky McFarlane, Hal Roach's Rascals, Our Gang
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.
1934-06-02
Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.
1933-01-28
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
1941-07-12
Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to
1941-09-29
Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, colle
1994-01-01
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed s
2001-05-15
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty
1936-12-11
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he b
1937-11-12
The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decided to create the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" in react
1937-07-24
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy
1937-10-23
While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he
1937-05-13
When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemi
1937-06-11
The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple.
1937-04-24
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
1936-03-13
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
1934-11-02
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Mil
1933-10-28
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
1934-08-25
The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
1932-09-30
Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
1933-03-11
While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
1933-05-27
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
1933-10-26
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with hi
1983-02-25
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war
1935-09-27
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative
1937-12-18
Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thum
1934-01-12
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael s
1984-01-01
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were
2011-09-20
The only thing more outrageous than The Little Rascals' antics are their wild imaginations! See what
1939-06-24
The Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from partici
1944-05-13
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy
1939-07-01
The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward
1986-08-01
In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being whose pr
1938-12-02
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and befo
1938-04-15
Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully B
1938-03-26
Alfalfa and the gang build their own "speedboat" powered by ducks, and challenge Waldo to a race for
1933-05-20
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
1934-01-27
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
1934-05-26
Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests fol
1938-03-05
In an effort to impress Darla, Alfalfa tells her that he's a famous bear trainer. Little does he kno
1938-02-12
Spanky and Alfalfa plot to play hooky so they can go fishing, by pretending that Alfalfa is sick and
1936-05-02
Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
1935-09-21
The gang wants Spanky to come out and play football, but he has to make sure his baby sister is asle
1935-04-27
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.
1941-10-24
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours.
1939-02-18
Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal
1936-04-11
A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she obser
1935-02-23
Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
1940-01-20
Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.
1942-01-24
The gang prevails upon old-time minstrel impresario Walter Wills to help them stage a fund-raising m
1934-05-05
The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is th
1935-08-30
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un
1943-07-03
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities
1942-04-04
After Buckwheat tells the gang he's seen a big monkey, Spanky, Froggy and Mickey decide to teach him
1940-10-05
The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their
1940-03-09
It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the fe
1932-04-19
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following e
1939-09-08
An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use wh
1939-10-20
The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
1937-08-28
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
1937-09-11
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he wi
1942-11-28
Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the Our Gang kids receive a fortune card predicting that the
1944-10-25
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
1943-05-14
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and h
1934-11-02
The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.
1935-03-13
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's mone
1934-11-13
Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his
1935-06-01
A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daugh
2022-04-05
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound shor
2022-06-14
A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, Volume 6 features the talents of George "Spanky" McFarland, B
1941-02-25
Spanky and the Our Gang kids go to battle over pranks with a rival gang.
1932-12-17
The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.
1940-09-07
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake b
1940-10-26
The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of prob
1941-02-15
Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born
1941-03-18
The gang puts on a show to raise money for the Red Cross.
1939-12-02
Alfalfa imagines himself being the star football player on a college team. After a big pep rally he
1940-03-30
Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The ki
1940-04-27
Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.
1940-05-25
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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 and
1938-09-17
Spanky and Alfalfa want to do a show based on the "Aladdin's Lamp" story with Darla in the cast, but
1938-10-15
The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues
1938-11-12
Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football g
1934-03-02
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
1932-08-27
The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.
1936-12-24
The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to
1934-04-13
The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
1932-11-12
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
1938-12-17
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
1939-01-07
Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa th
1934-12-07
A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage
1933-09-08
Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own
1936-08-20
Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in
1932-06-11
The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
1932-05-07
The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
1932-03-25
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."
1942-05-30
Since Froggy was born on Leap Year Day, he's upset that he only gets a birthday party once every fou
1939-04-29
Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad
1942-07-18
Our Gang puts on a show for the troops.
1942-08-22
Our Gang's dog, Rover, gets to audition for a movie studio.
1942-12-31
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, loo
2012-10-30
1940-11-23
While playing baseball near the home of wealthy hypochondriac, Mr. Morton, the gang inadvertently br
1936-02-08
When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
1937-04-03
The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.
1936-03-14
The gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to move
1936-10-23
The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leadin
1936-01-03
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.
1941-12-13
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fa
1942-03-07
The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by learnin
1941-04-26
While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When
1939-03-11
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch t
1932-02-13
The kids help capture a family of thieves.
1942-10-10
The Our Gang gets splashed by mud from a passing car and so using some cleaning fluid to get rid of
1937-01-08
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
1933-04-15
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believin
1981-01-01
The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jer
1982-02-24
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell
1931-07-01
Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fa
1934-09-28
See the Gang get a lesson on piracy and playing hooky in Shiver My Timbers, watch Spanky take on Gol
1935-10-25
Rather than go to church, Spanky decides to go fishing - with disastrous results.
1935-11-29
The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.
1936-09-25
Spanky and Alfalfa try to get Porky's and Buckwheat's fireworks.
1937-02-20
Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight.
1939-07-22
The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.
1989-12-02
A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with
1986-01-01
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis