Huntz Hall
Biography
Huntz Hall was an American radio, stage, and screen performer best known for his work with the Dead End Kids and the Bowery Boys. Born in New York City, he began performing on radio at five and appeared on Broadway in Sidney Kingsley's Dead End before joining William Wyler's 1937 film adaptation with Humphrey Bogart. With the Dead End Kids he acted in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and he later played the buffoonish Horace DeBussy Sach Jones in 48 Bowery Boys films, taking top billing after Leo Gorcey left the series in 1956. On television Hall co-starred in the 1971 CBS sitcom The Chicago Teddy Bears. His later screen credits included Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), Ken Russell's Valentino (1977), Gas Pump Girls (1979), and The Escape Artist (1982), which reunited him with Gabriel Dell. Hall's final film role was in Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992).
78years old at death
- Born New York City
- Died North Hollywood
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 55 years1937 to 1992
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A first
The Beatles put Hall on the cover of their 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, as one of the celebrities shown there.
First role
Hall was in the 1935 Broadway production of Dead End, a play Sidney Kingsley wrote and directed. He then joined the other Dead End Kids in the 1937 film Dead End.
Behind the camera
Hall planned to produce a movie series called "The Ghetto Boys," which was a take on the "Bowery Boys," but the plans fell through.
Huntz Hall movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
William Beaudine directed two of these films. Two actors appear in seven of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Leo Gorcey's page
Gabriel Dell's page
Bobby Jordan's page
Humphrey Bogart's page
William 'Billy' Benedict's page
Billy Halop's page
William BeaudineDirector, 2 films, 1943 to 1950
All films by William Beaudine
Also three films together1 more actor
- Bernard PunslyThey Made Me a Criminal (1939), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and Dead End (1937)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.