Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Acting

Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Born 1925-03-29 · Tacoma, Washington, USA

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, and he was running around so much that he began to wheeze. Such led to the coining of the 'Wheezer' name, one he carried for the rest of his time in Our Gang. Robert played the perky, tag-along little brother that was always anxious to be part of the mischief that the gang was getting into. He played such a part in both the silent films and the talkies.

Acting credits

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

It's Showtime poster
7.5

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

It's Showtime

1976

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 Spanking Age poster
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

Choo-Choo! poster
7.0

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

Choo-Choo!

1932

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

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

Teacher's Pet poster
6.8

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

Teacher's Pet

1930

Bouncing Babies poster
6.2

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

Bouncing Babies

1929

Boxing Gloves poster
6.2

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

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

Forgotten Babies poster
7.0

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

Forgotten Babies

1933

Little Daddy poster
6.8

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

Little Daddy

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

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

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

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

Free Eats poster
7.1

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Free Eats

1932

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

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

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

Spanky poster
7.2

While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."

Spanky

1932

Mush and Milk poster
6.6

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

Mush and Milk

1933

No artwork available
8.0

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

Yoo-Hoo

1932