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Norman Chaney is a Actor American born on 1 november 1914 at Baltimore (USA)

Norman Chaney

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Birth name Norman Myers Chaney
Nationality USA
Birth 1 november 1914 at Baltimore (USA)
Death 29 may 1936 (at 21 years) at Baltimore (USA)

Norman Myers Chaney (October 18, 1914 – May 29, 1936) was an American child actor, notable for appearing in 19 Our Gang comedies as "Chubby" from 1929 to 1931.

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Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(18 films)
Bobby Hutchins
Bobby Hutchins
(19 films)
Allen Hoskins
Allen Hoskins
(19 films)
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Filmography of Norman Chaney (19 films)

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Actor

The Stolen Jools, 20minutes
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, John G. Adolfi, William C. McGann, Victor Heerman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Jack Hill, Jack Hill, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles Chubby
Rating57% 2.851752.851752.851752.851752.85175
At the "Screen Stars Annual Ball", Norma Shearer has her jewels stolen. The police must find them and return them to her.
Bargain Day
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Stymie Beard, Bobby Hutchins, Shirley Jean Rickert, Allen Hoskins, Jackie Cooper, Norman Chaney
Roles Chubby
Rating68% 3.415043.415043.415043.415043.41504
Jackie notices that the Gang's baseball equipment is missing and discovers Wheezer and Stymie were peddling it, along with other items, from door to door. Wheezer, Stymie, and Bologna arrive at a rich family's home and try to sell a bunch of junk to a little girl named Shirley. Stymie wanders off playing with a pet monkey and a toy lion, and sets off a burglar alarm.
Fly My Kite
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Stymie Beard, Norman Chaney, Dorothy DeBorba, George Ernest, Allen Hoskins, Bobby Hutchins
Roles Chubby
Rating73% 3.673683.673683.673683.673683.67368
Grandma, who recently sold her grocery store, is enjoying retirement with her beloved "grandchildren". She's actually a widow who outlived her only daughter, who was married but childless. Grandma lives in her son-in-law's house and he's in charge of her money, which he has mostly spent. Meanwhile, she is having fun with the Gang—she's not any one child's grandma but everyone's grandma. Her son-in-law, however, wants to remarry and he and his intended both want Grandma out of the house so they can move in.
Helping Grandma
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Bobby Hutchins, Stymie Beard, Allen Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Norman Chaney, Jackie Cooper
Roles Chubby
Rating73% 3.6585453.6585453.6585453.6585453.658545
An older woman owns a small grocery store and the gang helps her run it by waiting on customers, delivering groceries, and keeping her company. They call her Grandma, though she is not any one kid's grandmother but everyone's grandma. She loves the gang and the gang loves her. A chain store company wants to buy her store for more than market value while a swindler also wants to buy it for next to nothing.
Little Daddy
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Allen Hoskins, Stymie Beard, Norman Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Bobby Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson
Roles Chubby
Rating71% 3.599553.599553.599553.599553.59955
Farina and Stymie are orphans and staying in a small flat near a black community church. The authorities want to put Stymie into an orphanage. Farina is sad about this but attempts to have a goodbye for Stymie with help from the gang. As Farina gets the food set up, Stymie eats it quicker than the gang could arrive. As the gang arrives, a man from the orphanage arrives to take Stymie to the home. The gang then attacks him in order to stop him from taking Stymie away. Miss Crabtree, their teacher, arrives on the scene and presumably settles matters.
Love Business
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jackie Cooper, Norman Chaney, Bobby Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson, Allen Hoskins, Stymie Beard
Roles Chubby
Rating79% 3.953453.953453.953453.953453.95345
Jackie is hopelessly in love with Miss Crabtree. At the same time, his sister Mary Ann tells their mother that Jackie is in love with Miss Crabtree. Jackie runs off to school without eating breakfast. Meanwhile, Miss Crabtree becomes a boarder in Jackie's home and moves in later that day. Chubby also is in love with Miss Crabtree and practices kissing her on an oversized cardboard statue of Greta Garbo. Then at school, Wheezer tells Jackie, Mary Ann, Chubby, Farina, Donald, and Bonedust that Miss Crabtree was moving into their house. Jackie has mixed emotions about this.
Bear Shooters
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Bobby Hutchins, Allen Hoskins, Leon Janney, Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson, Norman Chaney
Roles Chubby
Rating61% 3.091813.091813.091813.091813.09181
Spud wants to go camping and shoot lots of bears with Jackie, Chubby, and Farina. But his mother has forced him to look after his little brother Wheezer, who has the croup.
The First Seven Years
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson, Donald Haines, Bobby Hutchins, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney
Roles Chubby
Rating72% 3.6140353.6140353.6140353.6140353.614035
Jackie is in love with Mary Ann, but she is not interested in any boy. Speck also is in love with Mary Ann. Mary Ann, after beating up Jackie (who got aggressive after seeking advice from Kennedy the Cop), decides to play along. She suggests that Jackie and Speck fight in a duel. Jackie tries to chicken out but winds up fighting Speck. They both use real swords and cut up tons of laundry on the clothes lines. The rest of the gang roots for Jackie. In the end, they drop their swords and fight with their fists. Jackie wins and Speck's father comes out and holds Jackie down and has Speck hit Jackie until Jackie's elderly grandmother steps in and knocks Speck and his dad out. The gang then cheers her on.
Pups Is Pups
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jackie Cooper, Bobby Hutchins, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Ann Jackson
Roles Chubby
Rating67% 3.376693.376693.376693.376693.37669
Wheezer attempts to find his puppies after they run off and travel across the city. At the same time, the rest of the gang crash a high-society dog conformation show where Farina is working as a page. The kids bring all manner of wild animal pets (frogs, mice, ducks, and even a pig) into the show, and cause commotion and fear among the ritzy attendees. Because of the commotion the kids cause, Farina is fired.
School's Out
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors June Marlowe, Jackie Cooper, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Donald Haines
Roles Chubby Chaney
Rating71% 3.5787253.5787253.5787253.5787253.578725
Jackie is trying to circulate a petition among his classmates to keep school open during the summer, as he and the gang are afraid that they might lose Miss Crabtree during summer vacation. In addition, the kids fear that she might get married and therefore no longer be able to teach them.
Shivering Shakespeare
Directed by Robert A. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Norman Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Jackie Cooper, Allen Hoskins, Bobby Hutchins, Edgar Kennedy
Roles Chubby
Rating66% 3.319293.319293.319293.319293.31929
The gang participates, allegedly by force, in a boring play entitled The Gladiator's Dilemma. Written, produced and directed by the wife of Officer Kennedy, her husband is responsible for the special effects and will portray different characters as needed (including a giant named Ursus and an elephant).
Teacher's Pet, 20minutes
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors June Marlowe, Jackie Cooper, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby Hutchins
Roles Chubby
Rating78% 3.905583.905583.905583.905583.90558
It is the first day of school, and the gang is less-than-happy about it. Their beloved teacher, Miss McGillicuddy, got married, and now the kids will have a new teacher for the upcoming school year. The kids know not what the new teacher will look like, only her name, a rather pungent moniker of "Miss Crabtree". They imagine this "Miss Crabtree" to be a dried-up old hag, and concoct a plan to disrupt the class with items such as a white mouse, red ants, and sneezing powder. Then, the kids are to have their younger siblings — Wheezer, Dorothy, and Hercules — come in and tell Miss Crabtree that they need to be excused to go home ..."and then, we're all goin' swimmin'!"
A Tough Winter
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Allen Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby Hutchins, Jackie Cooper, Norman Chaney, Stepin Fetchit
Roles Chubby
Rating67% 3.3575353.3575353.3575353.3575353.357535
More a vehicle for comedian Stepin Fetchit, the gang go to Wheezer's and Mary Ann's house to have a taffy pull. But they get the ingredients mixed up and make a huge mess. They attempt to clean up and ask Stepin to help, but he crosses wires, plumbing and gas lines. As a result, light bulbs pop, water sprays from gas heaters, a phone acts as a vacuum cleaner and music plays from the icebox.
When the Wind Blows
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Jackie Cooper, Bobby Hutchins, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Julian Rivero
Roles Chubby
Rating67% 3.363543.363543.363543.363543.36354
It is a windy spring night. A man tells Kennedy the cop that it is a fine night for a murder or robbery. Farina is frightened, but his mother still has to do laundry, so he is left in a ramshackle house with windows so weak that the wind blows through a few doors down, Jackie is spanked by his father for refusing to do his homework; his little brother Wheezer is laughing at him. After being spanked, Jackie throws his school book out the window.
Bouncing Babies
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Bobby Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson, Allen Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Jean Darling, Harry Spear
Roles Chubby
Rating69% 3.47073.47073.47073.47073.4707
Wheezer is jealous of his baby brother, who gets all the attention from his family while Wheezer is ignored and expected to behave like a "big boy". After a failed attempt at making his own breakfast (and being spanked for doing so), Wheezer attempts to run away from home with Pete the Pup. After he happens upon Farina, they both find themselves on the receiving end of Halloween pranks from the gang in their costumes.