Joe Cobb
Birthday: 1916-11-07
Place of Birth: Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
Biography: Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Cobb auditioned for producer Hal Roach's comedy series at the age of five. He appeared in 86 Our Gang episodes during seven years, and had three guest appearances in the serial in the 1930s. His first Our Gang short was The Big Show. Cobb appeared in the Our Gang series' last silent film, Saturday's Lesson, and its first talking short, Small Talk. He was a recognizable character, with chubby cheeks and a trademark beanie cap. Some sources indicate that his final film with the Gang was Bouncing Babies; however, he does not appear onscreen in that short. His last film as a regular cast member was the previous entry Lazy Days, but he would also return for cameos in three more shorts over the years: Fish Hooky, Pay as You Exit, and Reunion in Rhythm. After his acting career ended in the early 1940s, Cobb became an assembler for North American Aviation, a division of Rockwell International. He retired in 1981. Cobb died of natural causes on May 21, 2002.
Movies
Fish Hooky
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him....
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The Holy Terror
Mary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of traini...
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Bouncing Babies
With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back....
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Your Own Back Yard
Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was...
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The Our Gang Story
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed s...
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty...
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Young Oldfield
Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't...
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A Pleasant Journey
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places...
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Boys to Board
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a...
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The Big Show
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever s...
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Stage Fright
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang a...
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Sunday Calm
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, m...
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Lodge Night
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Th...
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Derby Day
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own....
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Seein' Things
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him ...
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Commencement Day
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room sch...
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Tire Trouble
This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascal...
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Fast Company
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Ma...
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Back Stage
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to h...
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Cradle Robbers
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After ...
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The Mysterious Mystery!
Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to...
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The Big Town
The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next mornin...
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Circus Fever
The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were a...
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The Love Bug
Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty...
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Official Officers
The kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard. Mickey ...
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Mary, Queen of Tots
A couple makes dolls modeled on neighborhood kids. A gardener at a mansion buys four of them for Mar...
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Baby Clothes
Mr. and Mrs. Weedle are desperate to find two babies, for their rich uncle has sent them money for y...
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One Wild Ride
The gang has a taxi, consisting of an old Model T with no engine, pushed by a horse. When the owner ...
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Better Movies
The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were...
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Uncle Tom's Uncle
The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's mot...
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Shivering Spooks
The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them...
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War Feathers
While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a...
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The Smile Wins
Farina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business, but...
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Yale vs. Harvard
The Gang turn to playing football, and face tough competition against the Gas House Garlics....
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Heebee Jeebees
A hypnotist comes to town and puts the gang in animal-like trances. Now that the spell is off, the g...
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The Old Wallop
Wheezer likes to hit people on the nose, and his folks encourage him to do so. Then the Gang wanderi...
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Barnum & Ringling, Inc.
The kids decide to put on a circus at the local hotel. Seeing various pets and other domestic animal...
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Edison, Marconi & Co.
With Jay Edison as the inventor and Wheezer his assistant, the gang contrived an automobile of unusu...
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Fair and Muddy
Living in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a bequ...
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Growing Pains
Mary Ann has a liking toward Wheezer. Her mother tells her that if she gives him cod liver oil, he c...
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Crazy House
Crazy House is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 76...
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A Yank at Oxford
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win...
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Boxing Gloves
The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actual...
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Lazy Days
While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his ...
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Railroadin'
The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures ...
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Small Talk
The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". ...
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Seeing the World
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe a...
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Baby Brother
Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side ...
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The Glorious Fourth
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her ...
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The Ol' Gray Hoss
This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him...
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The Spanking Age
Mary Ann Jackson and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced ...
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Election Day
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. The...
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Little Mother
Little Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by...
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head o...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Dogs of War!
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they...
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Rainy Days
Jay and Wheezer are left alone on a rainy afternoon when Mom goes out to run errands. But when their...
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Tired Business Men
Tired Business Men is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was...
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Olympic Games
While the world watches the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the Rascals gather at the flats for their ow...
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Jubilo, Jr.
A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety o...
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Boys Will Be Joys
Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a la...
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Monkey Business
An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his...
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Love My Dog
Farina Hoskins discovers a stray dog. Joe Cobb suggests that he and Farina take the dog to the gang'...
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Saturday's Lesson
A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers....
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in p...
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Thundering Fleas
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which g...
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Our Gang At Home
Using several camera tricks, the movie shows what the Our Gang kids want to be when they grow up....
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The 'Fraidy Cat
Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood ch...
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 contains the first 11 Our Gang sound sho...
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Telling Whoppers
Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's ...
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Chicken Feed
Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 6...
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Ten Years Old
Ten Years Old is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the ...
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Noisy Noises
Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who...
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Fast Freight
Fast Freight is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film. It was the 85th Our Gang short that was re...
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Playin' Hookey
Wheezer gets excited watching his dog Pansy attack and rip apart the chickens and furniture in the b...
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Dog Days
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her...
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School Begins
One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a...
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July Days
The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mick...
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Big Business
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt,...
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The Sun Down Limited
The gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with Toug...
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Spook Spoofing
As a joke, several members of the gang convince Farina, who is "brave but superstitious", that he's ...
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Shootin' Injuns
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have...
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Pay As You Exit
The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leadin...
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Bring Home the Turkey
Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a lo...
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They e...
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It's a Bear
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to...
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Girl Shy
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, T...
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Good Cheer
On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Sa...
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Buried Treasure
The Rascals take their homemade boat on a search for treasure and crash a movie set....
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Reunion in Rhythm
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids....
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The Buccaneers
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits...
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A Tough Winter
An ice-cold Snub adopts a gamin and her brother; A mean landlord seeking rent complicates matters an...
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Wiggle Your Ears
This is a really strange, but thought provoking film. Here, beloved Mary literally lets Harry Spear ...
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Dog Heaven
Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him a...
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Classic Comedy Teams
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis...
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