Huntz Hall

Actor

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Also Known As

Henry Hall

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

August 15, 1919

Died

January 30, 1999

Cause of Death

Cardiac Disease

Biography

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One could argue that being born to a working class New York City family helped prepare Huntz Hall for a career playing tough young scrappers in the movies. His earliest feature credit was in "Dead End," the late-'30s classic starring Humphrey Bogart; there he reprised the role of Dippy, a youth growing up on the mean streets, whom Hall had previously played on stage. The young boys of th...

Filmography

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Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992)

The Ratings Game (1984)

Gas Pump Girls (1979)

Valentino (1977)

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)

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Live Wires (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Overgrown Kid

Live Wires (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Ignorance Is Bliss

Biography

One could argue that being born to a working class New York City family helped prepare Huntz Hall for a career playing tough young scrappers in the movies. His earliest feature credit was in "Dead End," the late-'30s classic starring Humphrey Bogart; there he reprised the role of Dippy, a youth growing up on the mean streets, whom Hall had previously played on stage. The young boys of the film--who became known as the Dead End Kids--were popular enough to spinoff into their own movie series, and they evolved into the Bowery Boys by the '40s. Around this time and through the late '50s, Hall also appeared in television series and films sans Bowery Boys, including the 1945 war classic "A Walk in the Sun"; however, before parting ways with the troupe, at that point composed of grownups rather than boys or teens, he received top billing. During the early '70s, he played Dutch on the sitcom "The Chicago Teddy Bears," which despite taking place during Prohibition was devoid of much more than implied violence. He had better luck in the movies of this time, appearing as part of the ensemble cast for the Walt Disney comedy "Herbie Rides Again." But despite its financial success, he may always be remembered more for the streetwise lads he played in "Angels with Dirty Faces" and other gritty classics.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992)

The Ratings Game (1984)

Gas Pump Girls (1979)

Valentino (1977)

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)

Herbie Rides Again (1974)

The Phynx (1970)

Gentle Giant (1967)

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1965)

In the Money (1958)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Up In Smoke (1957)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Hold That Hypnotist (1957)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Looking for Danger (1957)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones/Hauptman Otto von Schnabel

Spook Chasers (1957)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Dig That Uranium (1956)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones/Ranger

Hot Shots (1956)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Fighting Trouble (1956)

[Horace DeBussy] Sach [Jones

Crashing Las Vegas (1956)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Bowery to Bagdad (1955)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Spy Chasers (1955)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Jail Busters (1955)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

High Society (1955)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Jungle Gents (1954)

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)

Paris Playboys (1954)

Sach/Maurice Gaston Le Beau

Clipped Wings (1953)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Loose in London (1953)

Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones/Sir Horace

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Private Eyes (1953)

Here Come the Marines (1952)

Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones, Jr.

No Holds Barred (1952)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Feudin' Fools (1952)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Hold That Line (1952)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Ghost Chasers (1951)

Crazy Over Horses (1951)

Bowery Battalion (1951)

Let's Go Navy (1951)

Blues Busters (1950)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Lucky Losers (1950)

Triple Trouble (1950)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Blonde Dynamite (1950)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Angels in Disguise (1949)

Trouble Makers (1949)

Fighting Fools (1949)

Hold That Baby! (1949)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Master Minds (1949)

Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones

Jinx Money (1948)

Smugglers' Cove (1948)

Angels' Alley (1948)

News Hounds (1947)

Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)

Bowery Buckaroos (1947)

A Walk in the Sun (1946)

In Fast Company (1946)

Spook Busters (1946)

Live Wires (1946)

Bowery Bombshell (1946)

Wonder Man (1945)

Docks of New York (1945)

Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945)

Come Out Fighting (1945)

Bring on the Girls (1945)

Follow the Leader (1944)

Glimpy [Freedhoff]

Bowery Champs (1944)

Block Busters (1944)

Million Dollar Kid (1944)

Glimpy [McClosky]

Clancy Street Boys (1943)

Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

Kid Dynamite (1943)

Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943)

Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)

Albert "Pig" Gum

Private Buckaroo (1942)

Corporal Anemic

Mug Town (1942)

[Albert, also known as] Pig

Junior Army (1942)

Mr. Wise Guy (1942)

Smart Alecks (1942)

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)

Let's Get Tough! (1942)

Tough As They Come (1942)

Pig [also known as Albert]

Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)

Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)

Hit the Road (1941)

Mob Town (1941)

Spooks Run Wild (1941)

Zis Boom Bah (1941)

Skeets Skillhorn

Sea Raiders (1941)

You're Not So Tough (1940)

Give Us Wings (1940)

Junior G-Men (1940)

They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

The Return of Dr. X (1939)

The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)

On Dress Parade (1939)

Cadet Johnny Cabot

Hell's Kitchen (1939)

Little Tough Guy (1938)

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Crime School (1938)

Dead End (1937)

Cast (Special)

The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Looking for Danger - Lobby Card

Here is a Lobby Card from the Bowery Boys movie Looking for Danger (1957), starring Huntz Hall. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Crime School - Movie Posters

Here are a few original release American movie posters for Warner Bros' Crime School (1938), starring Humphrey Bogart and The Dead End Kids.

Hot Shots (1956) - Lobby Card

Here is a Lobby Card from the Bowery Boys comedy Hot Shots (1956). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Herbie Rides Again - Pressbook

Here is the original campaign book (pressbook) for Disney's Herbie Rides Again (1974). Pressbooks were sent to exhibitors and theater owners to aid them in publicizing the film's run in their theater.

Videos

Live Wires (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Overgrown Kid The first scene with Leo Gorcey reincarnated as "Slip Mahoney," in the first official "Bowery Boys" movie, who gets into trouble then joins his angered sister (Pamela Blake) and old Dead End and East Side Kids mates (Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Benedict), in Live Wires, 1946.

Live Wires (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Ignorance Is Bliss Leo Gorcey (as "Slip") is in everybody's face, particularly Sach (Huntz Hall) and waitress Mabel (Patti Brill), in the Bowery Boys' first feature, Live Wires, 1946.

Live Wires (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Pierce's Peerless In perhaps an archetypal scene for the newly re-named Bowery Boys, Slip (Leo Gorcey) with mates (Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Benedict) and sister (Pamela Blake), tries his new sales pitch on a wary customer (BIlly Christy), early in Live Wires, 1946.

Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Mark Of The Squealer The gang (Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell) showing off for Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart), would-be architect Dave (Joel McCrea) panics as well-to-do Kay (Wendy Barrie) tries to visit, with director William Wyler’s famous cockroach shot, in Dead End, 1937.

Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Frightened Of Being Poor With “Dead End” kids (Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan) and gangster Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart) nearby, aspiring architect Dave (Joel McCrea) visits with his more affluent otherwise-committed girlfriend Kay (Wendy Barrie), in Samuel Goldwyn’s urban drama Dead End, 1937.

Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Do My Own Fighting Tommy (Billy Halop) leads future “Bowery Boys” (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) recruiting Milton (Bernard Punsly), until his sister Drina (Sylvia Sidney) intervenes, gangster Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart) and her under-employed architect pal Dave (Joel McCrea) observing, early in Dead End, 1937.

Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Every Street In New York Opening from producer Samuel Goldwyn, director William Wyler and Lillian Hellman’s screenplay from Sidney Kingsley’s play, the socially conscious Dead End, 1937, and the first screen appearance by Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan and Gabriel Dell, who would become “Dead End Kids” and “Bowery Boys.”

Angels With Dirty Faces -- (Movie Clip) Now We're Pals Rocky (James Cagney) pays particular attention to Soapy (Billy Halop) and Bim (Leo Gorcey) when he drops in to collect his stash from the kids (including Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsley et al) in Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938.

Angels With Dirty Faces -- (Movie Clip) According To Rules! Rocky (James Cagney) steps in as referee when Father Jerry (Pat O'Brien) is having trouble instructing the kids (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey et al) in basketball in Angels With Dirrty Faces, 1938.

Dead End - (Original Trailer) A killer (Humphrey Bogart) returns to the mean streets that made him in William Wyler's Dead End (1937) co-starring Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea.

Family

Gary Hall

Son

Minister. Survived him.

Bibliography

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