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Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall (August 15, 1920 – January 30, 1999) was an American radio, stage, and movie performer who appeared in the popular "Dead End Kids" movies, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and in the later "Bowery Boys" movies, during the late 1930s to the late 1950s.
Huntz Hall. Actor: Dead End. The 14th of 16 children born to an air conditioning repairman, Henry Richard Hall (he got the name "Huntz" from a brother who said his large nose made him look German) was anything but the tough street kid he played in the East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films.
Huntz Hall. Actor: Dead End. The 14th of 16 children born to an air conditioning repairman, Henry Richard Hall (he got the name "Huntz" from a brother who said his large nose made him look German) was anything but the tough street kid he played in the East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films.
Feb 2, 1999 · Huntz Hall, who for 20 years played the slow-witted sidekick of Leo Gorcey in more than 80 ''Bowery Boys,'' ''Dead End Kids'' and ''East Side Kids''...
When Samuel Goldwyn turned the play into a 1937 film, he recruited the original "kids" from the play—Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Billy Halop, and Bernard Punsly—to appear in the same roles in the film. This led to the making of six other films that shared the collective title "The Dead End Kids".
Feb 1, 1999 · Huntz Hall, rubber-faced, smashed-nose, pop-eyed comedian who made 120 films including 87 with the durable, tough-talking Dead End Kids, later called the East Side Kids and the Bowery...
Huntz Hall, star of dozens of "Bowery Boys" and "Dead End Kids" films in the 1930s through the 1950s, died Saturday. He was 78. Hall was one of a group of young actors who came to Hollywood to...
Huntz Hall, the comic actor best known for being one of the Bowery Boys on film, but whose screen persona was launched on Broadway, died Jan. 30 of heart failure, the Los Angeles...
Jun 3, 1994 · As the bug-eyed Sach Jones to Leo Gorcey’s wiseacre Slip Mahoney, Huntz Hall was the epitome of the slacker goofball in the ’40s and ’50s. Now 73, he reminisces about paving the way for...
Feb 3, 1999 · Rubber-faced Huntz Hall, one of the original Dead End Kids who played sidekick to gang leader Leo Gorcey in the popular films of the late 1930s, died of heart failure on Saturday at his North...
