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- Punsly said that he never watched his old films - not because he had any regrets about making them, but because, as he said, he grew out of them.
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Jan 25, 2004 · Bernard Punsly, the last surviving member of the “Dead End Kids,” the on-screen hooligans featured in numerous films in the 1930s and ‘40s, has died. He was 80. Punsly, who left Hollywood...
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He returned to California, but not to a film career - he opened up a medical practice in Torrance. Punsly said that he never watched his old films - not because he had any regrets about making them, but because, as he said, he grew out of them.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Torrance, California, USA
He returned to California, but not to a film career - he opened up a medical practice in Torrance. Punsly said that he never watched his old films - not because he had any regrets about making them, but because, as he said, he grew out of them.
- Actor
- July 11, 1923
Unfortunately the show closed after only a week. He reportedly only tried out for the original stage production of Dead End on a whim, joining Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop and Gabriel Dell in the show’s gang of street urchins.
Jan 26, 2004 · By Variety Staff. Dr. Bernard Punsly, the last surviving member of the Dead End Kids, died of cancer in Torrance, Calif. He was 80. Punsly starred in numerous films in the 1930s and 1940s...
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. One of the "Dead End" kids. Played the sad-eyed "Dead End Kid" who was deep-down a good guy but fell into the gang by hard luck.
Original member of the Dead End Kids, Bernard worked with the gang when it moved to Universal Studios as the Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys in 1940. Punsly quit the gang in the early 1940s to join the military, and became a medic.
