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Biography[]

Character:Spanky McFarland
Birthday: October 2, 1928
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas
Date of Death: June 30, 1993
Place of Death: Grapevine, Texas
First Short:Free Eats
Last Short:Unexpected Riches
Number of Shorts: 95
Year Active: 1931–1944
History: His face as a young boy shaped and stood as the symbol for an American comedy series that began over five years before he was born. He became the first "big" star of the entire series over that of his co-stars who starred in many more shorts than him. When one mentions Our Gang or The Little Rascals, it is his adventures as Spanky with his pal Alfalfa that most often come to mind. Just how did this cherubic boy from the city built around J.R. Ewing become the favored icon of a much loved American comedy film series out of over two hundred child actors?
George Robert Phillips McFarland started out as a child model in Dallas, Texas at all of three years old, but his aunt obviously saw something special in him to send his photo to Hal Roach, who immediately arranged for a screen test done by James Ho

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Early life

McFarland was born in Denison, Texas, on October 2, 1928 to Virginia Winifred (née Phillips) and Robert Emmett McFarland.He had three siblings: Thomas (“Tommy,” who appeared in a few Our Gang episodes as “Dynamite”), Amanda, and Roderick (“Rod”). He attended Lancaster High School in Lancaster, TX.

Before joining the Our Gang comedies, “Sonny,” as he was called by his family, modeled children’s clothing for a Dallas department store and was also seen around the Dallas area on highway billboards and in print advertisements for Wonder Bread. This established Sonny early on in the local public’s eye as an adorable child model and provided experience before cameras.

Career

Our Gang

In January 1931, in response to a trade magazine advertisement from Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California requesting photographs of “cute kids,” Spanky’s Aunt Dottie (Virginia’s sister) sent pictures from Sonny’s portfolio. An invitation for a screen test arrived that spring, leading to his

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Spanky McFarland

American child actor (1928–1993)

Not to be confused with Spanky McFarlane.

"Spanky" and "George McFarland" redirect here. For other uses, see Spanky (disambiguation) and George McFarland (disambiguation).

George Robert Philips McFarland (October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993)^[6] was an American actor most famous for starring as a child as Spanky in Hal Roach's Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The Our Gang shorts were later syndicated to television as The Little Rascals.

In addition to his work in Our Gang and its feature-film spin-off General Spanky (1936), McFarland regularly appeared in co-starring or supporting juvenile roles in feature films produced by other studios throughout the 1930s. These included Kentucky Kernels (1934) with Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) with Sylvia Sidney and Fred MacMurray, and Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938). Leaving acting as a teenager, McFarland had several varying careers as an adult before finding success as a sales ex