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Emerson Treacy
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Actor Born: September 7, 1900 in Phildelphia, PA Death: January 10, 1967 in Hollywood, CA Biography:"Emerson Treacy" is best remembered for his work in a pair of "Little Rascals"/"Our Gang" shorts from the year 1933, portraying the father of Spanky McFarland. In point of fact, he was a successful, light leading man and character actor on-stage, in movies, and on radio and television, with a career that lasted more than 30 years, and took him from comedy on Broadway to roles in the movies of such directors as "George Cukor" and "Alfred Hitchcock". Of slightly diminutive size and with a ready smile, he could also do a good slow burn and turn comically pugnacious, and he had a gift for slapstick comedy as well, all attributes that went into his most well-remembered role, as Spanky's father in the "Little Rascals"/"Our Gang" shorts "Bedtime Worries" and "Wild Poses". As the well-meaning but harried husband and father, he was teamed in both films with "Gay Seabrook", the dark-haired, mousy-voiced, zany... Full Biography
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