Biography
Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Our Gang - Comedy Festival
2001
as Butch
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your...
Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
1984
as Himself / Tommy / Butch
A behind the scenes look at Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies, complete with interviews from several former cast and crew members of the series.

Hot Rod
1950
as Jack Blodgett
A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager wh...

Atom Man vs. Superman
1950
as Jimmy Olsen
Superman battles Lex Luthor, who is using a teleportation device and a new identity as Atom Man in his criminal plans.

Intruder in the Dust
1949
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a ...

Tokyo Joe
1949
as Fingerprint Sergeant (uncredited)
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals an...

Any Number Can Play
1949
as Mike (uncredited)
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it diff...

Superman
1948
as Jimmy Olsen
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.

Big Town Scandal
1948
as Waldo 'Dum Dum' Riggs
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.

The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
1947
as Chimp
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

Gas House Kids Go West
1947
as Chimp
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.

Twice Blessed
1945
as Horace
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of...

Man from Frisco
1944
as Russ Kennedy
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated...

This Land Is Mine
1943
as Pug-nosed School Bully
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and c...

New York Town
1941
as Willie (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...

Adventure in Washington
1941
as Peewee Haynes
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

A Little Bit of Heaven
1940
as Jerry
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to mov...

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
as Joey Pepper
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Out West with the Peppers
1940
as Joey Pepper
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But a...
Bubbling Troubles
1940
as Butch
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.

Five Little Peppers at Home
1940
as Joey Pepper
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner bec...
Let's Talk Turkey
1939
as Little Otto
It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her sc...

Captain Spanky's Show Boat
1939
as Butch
An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Da...

Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
1939
as Joey Pepper
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. ...
Auto Antics
1939
as Butch
The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.

Dog Daze
1939
as Butch
The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.

Cousin Wilbur
1939
as Butch
Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
Duel Personalities
1939
as Butch (uncredited)
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
Practical Jokers
1938
as Butch
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
Football Romeo
1938
as Butch
Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.

Party Fever
1938
as Butch
Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor For A Day. Whoever becomes Mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.

Block-Heads
1938
as Neighbor's Son
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old ...

The Major Lied 'Til Dawn
1938
as Little Boy (voice)
We open on a big game hunter telling a little boy (a caricture of child star Freddie Bartholomew) stories about hunting in the jungles of Africa. He t...
The Little Ranger
1938
as Butch
Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.

City Streets
1938
as Tommy Devlin
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him ...

Came the Brawn
1938
as Butch
Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his oppon...

Rosalie
1937
as Mickey (uncredited)
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Framing Youth
1937
as Butch
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.

Fishy Tales
1937
as Butch
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.

Hideaway
1937
as Oscar Peterson
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.

Rushin' Ballet
1937
as Butch
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.

Glove Taps
1937
as Butch
Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight.

Champagne Waltz
1937
as Otto, Singing Student
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss a...
Knee Action
1937
Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investors, but his idiot stepson proceeds to disrupt the d...

Don't Look Now
1936
as Cuckoo Clock / Dan Cupid / Devil Boy (voice) (uncredited)
It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.

Libeled Lady
1936
as Waif (uncredited)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the pub...

I Love to Singa
1936
as Owl Jolson (voice)
I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owl who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. T...
Mister Smarty
1936
as Smaller Bowzer Son
Mr. Bowser believes that he'll be able to clean the house better than his wife can.

Westward Whoa
1936
as Beans (voice)
Porky Pig and his friends Beans, Little Kitty and Ham and Ex, travel as pioneers toward the western frontier. As their wagon travels across the prairi...

Silly Billies
1936
as Student
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next...

Page Miss Glory
1936
as Abner (voice) (uncredited)
While the rural town of Hicksville anticipates the arrival of one Miss Glory, the bellhop at her modest hotel falls asleep and dreams of paging her at...

Boom Boom
1936
as Beans (voice)
World War I, apparently. There is a series of quick blackout gags, including a soldier that throws the pin...

The Phantom Ship
1936
as Beans (voice / uncredited)
Uncle Beans and the kids are off to visit a haunted ship ('The Phantom') trapped in the ice, hoping to find pirate treasure. They encounter all manner...

Next Time We Love
1936
as Pesky Kid (uncredited)
A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

Alpine Antics
1936
as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Prologue: various animals enjoy winter sports. Beans sees a notice of a ski race, and decides to enter. But so does a bad guy (who looks more than a l...

The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935
as Tommy (uncredited)
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a...

Hollywood Capers
1935
as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
W.C.Fields enters the Warmer Bros. Studio. Beans tries to drive in, but the guard throws him and his car against a tree. Charlie Chaplin drives in, fo...

A Cartoonist's Nightmare
1935
as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
A cartoonist falls asleep at the drawing board and into the clutches of his own villains, until Beans the Cat comes to the rescue.
Gobs of Trouble
1935
Two sailors decide to settle down and get married, and live to regret it.
Alimony Aches
1935
as Ronald, May's Son
Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.

Washee Ironee
1934
as Tommy
Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help hi...

Kid Millions
1934
as Boy in the Barge (uncredited)
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

You Said a Hatful!
1934
as Kid on train
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase ...

Mike Fright
1934
as Tommy
The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

Honky Donkey
1934
as Tommy
Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.

The First Round-Up
1934
as Tommy
The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls ...

I'll Take Vanilla
1934
as Junior
Ice-cream vendor Charley gets mixed up with a cute girl and her snotty nephew.

For Pete's Sake!
1934
as Tommy
The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.

Hi'–Neighbor!
1934
as Tommy
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

The Cracked Ice Man
1934
as (uncredited)
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

Wild Poses
1933
as Tommy
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

Beauty and the Bus
1933
as Little Boy Who Draws Winning Ticket (uncredited)
The girls win a car in a raffle.

Bedtime Worries
1933
as Tommy
Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.

Mush and Milk
1933
as Tommy
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

The Kid from Borneo
1933
as Tommy
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

Forgotten Babies
1933
as Tommy
While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.