Bernard Punsly
Biography
Bernard Punsly was an American actor who started on the stage as a child and later became a physician. Born in New York City, he began acting at eight in the play I Love An Actress and went on to play Milty in the Broadway production of Dead End. He repeated that role in the 1937 film adaptation, Dead End (1937), and continued in the Little Tough Guys series. His screen credits included Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Little Tough Guy and Hell's Kitchen, and he played W.C. Fields' caddy in The Big Broadcast of 1938. The Los Angeles Times noted that he often played the innocent youth who fell in with a gang. After his last film, Mug Town, he left acting, earned a medical degree and worked as an internist, becoming chief of staff at a hospital before retiring in 2002. He died in 2004.
80years old at death
- Born New York City
- Died Torrance
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 2 years1937 to 1939
Every film, newest first
- 1939They Made Me a CriminalIMDb rating 6.8
- 1938Angels with Dirty FacesIMDb rating 7.8
- 1937Dead EndIMDb rating 7.2
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A change of course
Punsly's final film was Mug Town in 1942, after which other actors in the series became the Bowery Boys. He then joined the Army, got medical training, and after discharge entered the Medical College of Georgia, earning his degree in 1949.
First role
Punsly started acting when he was eight, appearing in the play I Love An Actress. He went on to play Milty in Dead End on Broadway.
A change of course
Punsly worked as an internist at Little Company of Mary Hospital. In 1971, he took the role of chief of staff at South Bay Hospital in Redondo Beach.
Bernard Punsly movies on Netflix
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Films together
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Also two films together1 more actor
- Ann SheridanThey Made Me a Criminal (1939) and Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
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Online
Official profiles and reference pages.