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- Humphrey BogartHugh "Baby Face"/"Marty" Martin
- Joel McCreaDave Connell
- Wendy BarrieKay Burton
- Claire TrevorFrancey
- Allen JenkinsHunk
- Marjorie MainMrs. Martin
- Billy HalopTommy Gordon
- Minor WatsonMr. Griswald
- Huntz HallDippy
Bobby JordanAngel- James Burke (actor)Policeman Mulligan
- Ward BondDoorman
- Leo GorceySpit
- Gabriel DellT.B.
- Elisabeth RisdonMrs. Connell
- Esther DaleMrs. Fenner
- George HumbertJake Pascagli
At Warner Bros., the Dead End Kids made six films, including Angels with Dirty Faces, with some of the top actors in Hollywood, including James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Pat O'Brien, and Ronald Reagan. The last one was in 1939, when they were released from their contracts owing to more antics on the studio lot.
1. Billy Halop. Actor. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Billy Halop's show business career started on radio in the 1920s and carried over to stage work on Broadway. There, in 1937, he and other teenage cast members of the stage hit "Dead End" were brought to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn for the film version of the play, which was a tremendous hit.
The Dead End Kids originally appeared in the 1935 play Dead End, dramatized by Sidney Kingsley. 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.
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The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley’s Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film. They proved to be so popular that they continued to make movies under various monikers, including The East Side Kids ...
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917 – June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and, as adults, The Bowery Boys.
YearFilmRole1937Spit1937Joe Gannow1937Boy boxer in gym1937CliffordJan 24, 2004 · Jan. 24, 2004. Bernard Punsly, the last surviving member of the Dead End Kids, a band of teenage actors who starred in films in the 1930's and 40's and paved the way for the Bowery Boys,...
At Warner Brothers, the Dead End Kids made six films with some of the top actors in Hollywood, including James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Pat O'Brien, and Ronald Reagan, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). The last one was in 1939, when they were released from their contracts due to more antics on the studio lot.
