Spanky McFarland
American child actor (1928–1993) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
George McFarland | |
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Born | (1928-10-02)October 2, 1928 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
Died | June 30, 1993(1993-06-30) (aged 64)[3][4] Grapevine, Texas, U.S. |
Occupation | Child actor |
Years active | 1931–1944 |
Spouse |
Doris McFarland (m. 1967) |
Children | 3 |
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 executive. He spent the final decades of his life as a public speaker reflecting on his child-acting career.[7]