Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Acting

Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Born — Died

1925-03-29 — 1945-03-17

Place of birth

Tacoma, Washington, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Robert E. Hutchins was born March 29th, 1925, in Tacoma, Washington. He was born to James Hutchins and Olga Hutchins (nee Roe). Robert was a very outgoing boy with a charming personality, because friends persuaded James and Olga to go to a Hollywood photographer and get his picture taken. The photographer was impressed by Robert's intelligence, and asked to take a few feet of film of him. The results were so good that the film ended up in the projection room at Hal Roach Studios. Hal Roach decided the boy would be a good addition to his "Our Gang" short films, and signed him to a five year contract. On his first day at the studio, Robert didn't have an identity for his part in the movies, a…

Known for

The Little Rascals poster
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The Little Rascals, also known as "Our Gang", was an American comedy series about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they shared together. It began as a series of short films in the 1920s, and was brought to television in the 1950s.

The Little Rascals

1929

Boxing Gloves poster
6.1

The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry between two very large young kids, Joe and Chubby, that would fill the bill if only the two heavyweights would put aside their gentle natures. Farina gets an idea: tell each of the lads that the other will take a dive in the second round. So the fight begins and the stands are filled; but will the combatants actually throw a punch? Ernie has one more trick up his sleeve to get the fists flying and the crowd on its feet. Sweet science indeed.

Boxing Gloves

1929

The Stolen Jools poster
5.6

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

The Stolen Jools

1931

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 poster
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 contains the first 11 Our Gang sound shorts produced by Roach at the dawn of the “talkie era": Small Talk to A Tough Winter—with each short newly scanned and restored from original Hal Roach 35mm film elements.

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1

2021

School Begins poster
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

Moan & Groan, Inc. poster
6.2

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

Moan & Groan, Inc.

1929

Film credits

1930s · 28 titles

The Stolen Jools poster
5.6

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

The Stolen Jools

1931

The First Seven Years poster
5.8

Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.

The First Seven Years

1930

Choo-Choo! poster
7.0

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

Choo-Choo!

1932

Love Business poster
6.8

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Love Business

1931

Shiver My Timbers poster
7.2

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.

Shiver My Timbers

1931

A Tough Winter poster
5.8

The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest.

A Tough Winter

1930

Free Eats poster
7.1

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Free Eats

1932

No artwork available
8.0

James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.

Yoo-Hoo

1932

When the Wind Blows poster
6.7

Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime

When the Wind Blows

1930

No artwork available
NR

French language version of A TOUGH WINTER with a new cast.

Temps d'Hiver

1930

Mush and Milk poster
6.8

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

Mush and Milk

1933

Shivering Shakespeare poster
5.9

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.

Shivering Shakespeare

1930

Dogs Is Dogs poster
5.9

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

Dogs Is Dogs

1931

A Lad an' a Lamp poster
6.9

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

A Lad an' a Lamp

1932

The Pooch poster
6.8

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

The Pooch

1932

Bear Shooters poster
5.6

The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.

Bear Shooters

1930

The Kid from Borneo poster
7.1

The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

The Kid from Borneo

1933

Readin' and Writin' poster
7.0

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

Readin' and Writin'

1932

No artwork available
NR

The kids go on a camping trip and run into some bootleggers. This here is the Spanish language version of BEAR SHOOTERS.

Los cazadores de osos

1930

Teacher's Pet poster
6.8

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Teacher's Pet

1930

School's Out poster
7.0

The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit, the children mistake him for a suitor. The children tell abominable lies about Miss Crabtree to try to discourage the man. Meanwhile, one of the children is selling answers to the upcoming oral exam. Unfortunately for the students, the young entrepreneur used a book of minstrelsy and blackface as his source for the "answers".

School's Out

1930

Helping Grandma poster
7.0

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

Helping Grandma

1931

Fish Hooky poster
7.6

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

Fish Hooky

1933

Fly My Kite poster
6.7

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.

Fly My Kite

1931

Big Ears poster
5.4

Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.

Big Ears

1931

Bargain Day poster
6.1

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

Bargain Day

1931

Little Daddy poster
6.9

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Little Daddy

1931

No artwork available
NR

Juanito gets locked out of his house in the middle of a windy night. Spanish language version of When the Wind Blows (1930)

The Ghosts

1930

1920s · 29 titles

Boxing Gloves poster
6.1

The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry between two very large young kids, Joe and Chubby, that would fill the bill if only the two heavyweights would put aside their gentle natures. Farina gets an idea: tell each of the lads that the other will take a dive in the second round. So the fight begins and the stands are filled; but will the combatants actually throw a punch? Ernie has one more trick up his sleeve to get the fists flying and the crowd on its feet. Sweet science indeed.

Boxing Gloves

1929

School Begins poster
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

Moan & Groan, Inc. poster
6.2

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

Moan & Groan, Inc.

1929

Olympic Games poster
7.0

While the world watches the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the Rascals gather at the flats for their own games. Whether it's the shot put, the hurdles, the pole vault, or the high jump, not much goes right. There's a deep mud hole that catches several of the kids, and someone out there keeps giving them the razzberry. It's young Wheezer hiding out of sight with his dog Punch, but the kids think it's another boy, so every time they hear the Bronx cheer, they chase the innocent lad and give him a thumping.

Olympic Games

1927

Railroadin' poster
6.0

The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times. Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.

Railroadin'

1929

Dog Heaven poster
5.8

Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl. A dog friend of Pete's stops him in the nick of time, and in flashback Pete tells him of his sorrows; Pete becomes a drunkard and is chased away by Joe. The last straw comes when another dog knocks Joe's sweetheart into a lake and Pete is blamed for it. Will Pete carry through with his suicide or will Joe apologize?

Dog Heaven

1927

Heebee Jeebees poster
9.0

A hypnotist comes to town and puts the gang in animal-like trances. Now that the spell is off, the gang returns back to their usual roles. But then while at an afternoon tea social , the spell returned, ruining a perfectly good afternoon.

Heebee Jeebees

1927

The Holy Terror poster
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

Growing Pains poster
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

The Ol' Gray Hoss poster
6.3

This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and buggy business, but he has new competition: an auto taxi. The gang helps him to maintain his job by sabotaging the other man's.

The Ol' Gray Hoss

1928

Playin' Hookey poster
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

Noisy Noises poster
7.8

Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who won't stop crying. Every effort to calm Rupert is undone by an immediate commotion to wake him up. Joe rocks him to sleep, but then the neighbor starts playing his bass fiddle. Joe then rocks the cradle so hard it falls apart, and he trips and stumbles moving Rupert to the baby carriage, which subsequently rolls down hill through traffic with Rupert and a neighbor's monkey enjoying the ride.

Noisy Noises

1929

Bouncing Babies poster
6.3

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

Bouncing Babies

1929

Crazy House poster
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

Small Talk poster
6.0

The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a wealthy couple, while his older sister Mary Ann does not. The gang all comes to visit Wheezer in his new home, setting off an alarm that causes the police and the fire department to come over. At that time, Wheezer's new mother and father decide to adopt Mary Ann as well. The couple's friends all each adopt a child as well; even Farina is adopted by the maid at Wheezer's new home.

Small Talk

1929

Cat, Dog & Co. poster
6.7

Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.

Cat, Dog & Co.

1929

Fair and Muddy poster
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

Lazy Days poster
5.1

While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.

Lazy Days

1929

Election Day poster
7.0

This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.

Election Day

1929

The Old Wallop poster
7.5

Wheezer likes to hit people on the nose, and his folks encourage him to do so. Then the Gang wandering off climbing atop a construction site while the builders have gone to lunch.

The Old Wallop

1927

Chicken Feed poster
6.7

Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 66th Our Gang short subject released. The kids go to a magic show and decides to try a little magic of their own.

Chicken Feed

1927

Saturday's Lesson poster
7.0

A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.

Saturday's Lesson

1929

Barnum & Ringling, Inc. poster
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

Baby Brother poster
6.5

Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.

Baby Brother

1927

Little Mother poster
6.8

Little Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Little Mother was the 87th Our Gang short to be released. A silent film, it followed Our Gang's first sound film, Small Talk, on the release schedule.

Little Mother

1929

Spook Spoofing poster
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

Edison, Marconi & Co. poster
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

Rainy Days poster
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

Fast Freight poster
8.5

Fast Freight is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film. It was the 85th Our Gang short that was released. The gang takes a tramp's train ride and end up taking shelter in a haunter house.

Fast Freight

1929

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