Hal Roach

Who Killed Doc Robbin Who Killed Doc Robbin is a 1948 film produced by Hal Roach and Robert F. McGowan as a reimagining of their Our Gang series. The film was one of Roach's many "streamlined" features of the 1940s, running only 55...

In this article: Who Killed Doc Robbin, Our Gang, Curley, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bernard Carr, United Artists, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, and Robert F. McGowan

...Roach had in mind. McGowan would go on to direct most of the "Our Gang" films until he left Roach in 1933, reportedly exhausted by the stress of dealing with the dozens of child actors who passed through his care. But McGowan clearly had...

In this article: Our Gang, Robert F. McGowan, Spanky, MGM, Irving Berlin, Warner Home Video, This Is the Army, and Luis Bunuel

...short, shot in January 1922. After preview screenings, Roach brought in Robert F. McGowan and Tom McNamara to reshoot the film (following their work on two other Our Gangs, Fire Fighters '' and ''Young Sherlocks). No complete prints of the...

In this article: Our Gang, Fire Fighters, Young Sherlocks, Tom McNamara, Pathe, Charley Chase, Fred Newmeyer, Robert F. McGowan, and Little Rascals

...short subject, part of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) series. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach, and originally released to theatres by M-G-M in 1930 . It was the 100th (12th talking) Our Gang short that was...

In this article: Pups Is Pups, Our Gang, Little Rascals, Goat, Dog, DVD, Leroy Shield, Library of Congress, and M-G-M

.... Newmeyer was the original director of the first short in the Our Gang series, also titled Our Gang; his version tested poorly, and producer Hal Roach scrapped most of the footage and remade the short with Robert McGowan as the director.

In this article: Fred C. Newmeyer, Our Gang, Harold Lloyd, The Pinch Singer, Arbor Day, Male and Female, Girl Shy, The Freshman, and Safety Last

...rescue mission left him with a permanent limp. McGowan moved to California in the 1910s and made the acquaintance of Hal Roach, an aspiring film producer who opened his own studio in 1914. By 1920, McGowan was a director at the Roach...

In this article: Robert F. McGowan, Our Gang, California, Divot Diggers, Curley, Who Killed Doc Robbin, Shivering Shakespeare, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, and Paramount Pictures

Fire Fighters (film) Fire Fighters is a 1922 silent short film, the second entry in Hal Roach's Our Gang (Little Rascals) series. Directed by Robert F. McGowan and Tom McNamara , the two-reel short was released to theaters in October 1922 by...

In this article: Fire Fighters, Pathe, Our Gang, Robert F. McGowan, and Little Rascals

Young Sherlocks Young Sherlocks is a 1922 silent short subject, the fourth entry in Hal Roach's Our Gang (Little Rascals) series. Directed by Robert F. McGowan and Tom McNamara, the two-reel short was released to theaters in November 1922 by...

In this article: Young Sherlocks, J.J.J., Tom McNamara, Pathe, Our Gang, Robert F. McGowan, and Little Rascals

...has him born in 1918 or 1919. In the late fall of 1928, Our Gang producer Hal Roach and director Robert F. McGowan began to look for an overweight child actor to replace Joe Cobb in the series. Joe was twelve years of age, and the...

In this article: Norman Myers Chaney, Our Gang, Joe Cobb, Maryland, Robert F. McGowan, Baltimore, Railroadin', Surgery, and Myocarditis