Angels With Dirty Faces
1938
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Bernard Punsly (July 11, 1923 – January 20, 2004) was an American actor who later left show business to become a physician. His last name was often spelled incorrectly in film credits as Punsley.
Bernard Punsly Death. Bernard passed away on January 20, 2004 at the age of 80 in Torrance, California, USA. Bernard's cause of death was cancer.
Trivia. At the death of Huntz Hall in 1999, Dr. Punsley became the last surviving original Dead End Kid. In February 1994, Bernard appeared with fellow ex-Dead End Kid Huntz Hall at a ceremony in which the gang received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- July 11, 1923
- January 20, 2004
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Jan 25, 2004 · Bernard Punsly, the last surviving member of the Dead End Kids, a band of teen actors who starred in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s and paved the way for the Bowery Boys, has died. He...
Actor: Dead End. Bernard Punsly auditioned for the 1935 play "Dead End" on a lark - he had absolutely no show-business experience whatsoever, had never studied acting and had no desire to be an actor.
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History. The urban drama Dead End became both a successful play and a hit movie, featuring six young actors playing streetwise guttersnipes: Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Jordan, and Bernard Punsly. The troupe became known as The Dead End Kids and starred in a series of features for Warner Brothers .
