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The Wonder Dog Pal

Acting

Biography

Pal the Wonder Dog was a canine actor and the first dog to portray Pete the Pup in the Our Gang series, his most notable role. He was born with a ring around his eye, a feature emulated by future Pete the Pup actors. As a young dog, he appeared in Harold Lloyd's The Freshman. His son, Lucaney's Peter, took over the role of Pete the Pup after Pal's death.

Known For

The Freshman
7.0

An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.

The Freshman

1925
Growing Pains
8.0

Mary Ann has a liking toward Wheezer. Her mother tells her that if she gives him cod liver oil, he can become a giant. A circus giant comes to board, learns the plan and substitutes for Wheezer.

Growing Pains

1928
Spook Spoofing
7.7

As a joke, several members of the gang convince Farina, who is "brave but superstitious", that he's caused the demise of a young acquaintance and must therefore lay the body (actually still very alive) to rest in the old burying ground, under the watchful eye of "the graveyard witch". The joke backfires spectacularly on the pranksters.

Spook Spoofing

1928
Moan & Groan, Inc.
6.3

The gang goes digging for treasure in an old abandoned house against Kennedy the Cop's wishes.

Moan & Groan, Inc.

1929
The Smile Wins
6.8

Farina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business, but the kids just wreck the clothes. Joe takes pity and devises a scheme to make money: the gang builds their own oil well.

The Smile Wins

1928
School Begins
8.0

One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the unenviable ritual of returning to school during the first week of September. School begins and some gang members are forging notes from their mother wanting out. Then too-young Wheezer parades by the school with escaped circus seals following him, causing a disturbance.

School Begins

1928
Thru the Flames
N/A

Dan Merrill is discharged from the fire department where he has distinguished himself because he is physically unable to stay in a smoking room. His enemies tell his girl, Mary Fenton, that he is a coward. But he proves his efficiency by trailing a gang of crooks who have been responsible for robberies in which they covered their tracks by starting fires.

Thru the Flames

1923
Fair and Muddy
8.0

Living in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a bequest from a rich uncle, she must acquire a child. Thinking suspicion, the gang causes all kinds of havoc toward her including a mud battle.

Fair and Muddy

1928
Rainy Days
7.2

Jay and Wheezer are left alone on a rainy afternoon when Mom goes out to run errands. But when their friends drop by and trash the place, the boys must struggle to clean up before Mom returns.

Rainy Days

1928
Barnum & Ringling, Inc.
6.8

The kids decide to put on a circus at the local hotel. Seeing various pets and other domestic animals dressed up like circus animals was very cute--particularly the dachshund dressed as a seal! However, the animals all get loose and terrorize the hotel guests--including a drunk played by Oliver Hardy.

Barnum & Ringling, Inc.

1928
Buster's Nightmare
9.0

A Universal Pictures comedy short

Buster's Nightmare

1925
The Holy Terror
7.0

Mary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of training and controlling her behavior.

The Holy Terror

1929
Bouncing Babies
6.3

With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.

Bouncing Babies

1929
Crazy House
7.2

Crazy House is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 76th Our Gang short that was released. It was the final appearance of Jackie Condon, who was with the gang since the pilot episode of Our Gang in 1922.

Crazy House

1928
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9.0

Jerry flirts with a young miss whose parents are fighting for her custody in a divorce court. Jerry settles the argument by inviting the lady out for a ride in his speed bus with dog power. Pal is all six of the cylinders. The kids later wind up aboard a boat bound for Europe, shipped aboard in a case containing a litter of young leopards. There is considerable helter-skelter business when the animals break loose but young Jerry saves the day by coaxing them all back to their cages. Jerry is also the means of bringing about the reunion of his little girl friend's parents. —The Film Daily, October 31, 1926

Napoleon, Jr.

1926
The Spanking Age
6.0

Mary Ann Jackson and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother and stepsister. The kids get even by rigging a few clever contraptions of their own. In the end the father sells a patent worth millions. Before that, the Our Gang kids bring out out the old "alum" gag, along with several other tried-and-true comedy bits.

The Spanking Age

1928
Playin' Hookey
7.0

Wheezer gets excited watching his dog Pansy attack and rip apart the chickens and furniture in the back yard. His mother is upset, and his father takes his rifle to shoot the dog. Meanwhile, Joe Cobb has taught Pansy to play dead, and after the deed is done, he hides the dog at Farina's house.

Playin' Hookey

1928
Edison, Marconi & Co.
7.0

With Jay Edison as the inventor and Wheezer his assistant, the gang contrived an automobile of unusual construction; an automobile that will look like a submarine.

Edison, Marconi & Co.

1928