Perhaps some day Hall will be lauded as surely a comic. In the last one, ''In the Money'' (1958), a 38-year-old Mr. Hall is once more the perpetual adolescent, dog-sitting a poodle on a cruise as nefarious thieves try to steal a diamond hidden on the dog. He. He] kept us laughing all the time. Huntz Hall Played the zany sidekick Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones in 48 Bowery Boys films in the 1940s and '50s. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Birthday: Aug 15, 1919 Birthplace: New York, New York, USA One could argue that being born to a working class New York City family helped prepare Huntz Hall for a career playing tough young. graduating from a Catholic grammar school, he attended New York's Mon 15 Feb 1999 21.24 EST Huntz Hall, who has died aged 79, will always be remembered as one of the Dead End Kids, the cinematic gang of streetwise slum children who were really Angels With Dirty. Told "The only thing that could improve your looks is plastic surgery", he delightedly replies, "Thank you for the compliment." He was still attending the school when he auditioned for Dead End and was given the part of Dippy because he could imitate a machine gun. They had a daughter, Brandy Gorcey Ziesemer, but divorced in 1962. He was 78. The movie was a hit, and the Dead Enders -- Mr. Hall, Mr. Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan and Bernard Punsley -- became such stars that within two years Warner Brothers rushed production of six more films in which they portrayed roughly the same group of wayward teen-agers, more victimized by society than victimizers. Death. They were some of the first social dramas. 204-205. Change). This is the story of Huntz Hall, who played the zany character in forty-eight Bowery Boys motion pictures from the 1946 thru 1958. Also, shame on the Beatles for not throwing Leo a paltry (even for the day) $400, Stan there are great sets of the films from The Laugh Factory ti Best Buys link here https://www.bestbuy.com/site/the-east-side-kids-dvd/14303817.p?skuId=14303817&ref=212&loc=1&&ref=212&loc=1&ds_rl=1266837&gclid=CjwKCAiA9efgBRAYEiwAUT-jtFLHNnQgtlVmFsbFuWQEFbZMKFke4tfmAsY1heyjRE07SEJHCkWbMBoCh94QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds, Im addicted to those East side kids Bowery boys etc we grew up watching them Saturday theatre watching in zJersey city, Thanks. [7], He appeared on Broadway in the 1935 production of Dead End, a play written and directed by Sidney Kingsley. Life and career. The public was seeing the dirty laundry, the slums, the garbage. In high school, Gary faithfully attended Allens shows. Miltie was fuming when I declared that Huntz won the cock face-off. Played the zany sidekick Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones in 48 Bowery Boys films in the 1940s and '50s. ", Bowery Blitzkreig (1941), made by the minor studio Monogram, was the first film in which Hall played as one of the East Side Kids, but it was the next, Spooks Run Wild (1941), that firmly established the team as purveyors of good-natured corn and Hall's character Glimpy as the principal comic, blissfully unaware of his own stupidity. New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. In 1945 Sam Katzman, producer of the East Side Kids series, flatly refused to meet Gorcey's demand of double his usual salary. Episode #116: Gary Hall (Huntz Hall) Listen on: Spotify; Apple; Amazon; Stitcher; We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 15 August. Gorcey was many times sluggish and bloated from booze- sometimes lifeless. When he returned in 1935, he and Leo's younger brother David Gorcey persuaded Leo to audition for a small part in the play Dead End. When Samuel Goldwyn produced the 1937 film version of ''Dead End,'' adapted by Lillian Hellman and directed by William Wyler, the six juveniles served as something of a Greek chorus, variously tempted and repelled by the older characters played by Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney. For one last time in 1969, Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall appeared together for a forgettable movie called The Phynx(1970). In February 1949, Gorcey married actress Amelita Ward, with whom he had appeared in Clancy Street Boys and Smugglers' Cove. He did not have oil-well investments as has been erroneously reported for years all over the Internet. Frank was on the floor convulsing in laughter., In the end, Milt honored the bet and hired Hall for the show!, COPYRIGHT 2020 By TheLifeandTimesofHollywood.com, Stories From The Life and Times of Hollywood. Despite the Germanic appearance which resulted in his nickname, he was actually of Irish ancestry. He also portrayed a gangster named Crab in the 1938 James Cagney film Angels with Dirty Faces. After graduating from a Catholic grammar school he attended the Professional Children's School. Huntz Hall continued to appear in dinner theater, a cadre of films which included an important role in Ken Russells Valentino (as Jesse Lasky) and in a tv series with Dean Jones called The Chicago Teddy Bears among countless other roles. I've had more black eyes than a prizefighter. Leo had just lost a job as a plumber's apprentice and wished to emulate his father's modest success. Huntz's only son is Leslie Richard, born September 22, 1949. Hall was born in 1920 in New York City to Joseph Patrick Hall, an engineer from Ireland, and his wife . In the early 1950s, Hall and former Bowery Boys actor Gabriel Dell teamed up and for a "Hall and Dell" nightclub act that was so successful it cost both men their marriages; in 1953 Hall's and Dell's wives both sued for divorce, claiming the men thought more of the act than they did of them. Biography Huntz Hall was born in New York City, NY on August 15, 1920. His son Gary Hall told biographer Jim Manago that his father made up that story for attention. He was given background roles at a lower salary. He also portrayed a gangster named Crab in the 1938 James Cagney film Angels with Dirty Faces. The 14th of 16 children born to an air conditioning repairman, Henry Richard Hall (he got the name "Huntz" from a brother who said his large nose made him look German) was anything but the tough street kid he played in the East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films. He put his arms around me and tried to force me to kiss him. The six juveniles from the play - Hall, Gorcey, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell and Bernard Punsly - were all recruited for the Hollywood version, recreating their roles as youngsters whose attitudes are conditioned by their poverty-stricken environment, making them easy prey to the influence of a gangster (Humphrey Bogart). Its often reported that for a period during the Bowery Boy movies, Leo was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. ( divorced), Leslie Wright (ca. Of Gorcey, he stated, "We dug one another." They were just flat out funny. If we were always together, it could have caused problems." Gorcey was born in New York City on June 3, 1917, the son of Josephine (ne Condon), an Irish Catholic immigrant, and Bernard Gorcey, a Russian Jewish immigrant. (1966 -. Leo Gorcey worked very little until his death in1969. With his wide eyes and hunched demeanour, as if constantly cowering from the inevitable blows, he created a memorable character and proved the most durable of the cast, appearing in 81 of the series' films (more than any other actor) including the final one in 1958. - Huntz Hall, Entertainment Weekly interview "Huntz Hall, I loved him. - Listen to Rarified Heir Podcast instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed. An indication of the films' profitability was Monogram's decision to give them a shooting schedule of two weeks (the previous films had been shot in six or seven days). Mr. Hall is survived by a son, the Rev. After the Warner films. In reminiscing about his Hollywood past, Gary Hall shares that Shemp Howard was his godfather. Hall and Gorcey reunited in Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1966) and The Phynx (1969). Blair played leading roles in Western television shows that's why had massive income. Bernds and Hall remembered Hall fondly. Gorcey created the stage persona of a quarrelsome guttersnipe whose greatest joy was to make trouble. After the trial Hall married showgirl Leslie Wright. Hall's son, the Rev. An Upcoming film that is based on Dr Feelgood is scheduled to debut in 2020 Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. (LogOut/ Duke, who was always trying to get his clients work, thought Huntz Hall would get a career boost by having him appear on the very popular Texaco Star Theater starring Milton Berle. When Peter Blake was designing the Beatles album cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Band, they included the Bowery Boys with other cultural icons such as Fred Astaire, Shirley Temple and Zane West. Gorcey, devastated, began abusing alcohol and lost a great deal of weight. At 79 years old, Huntz Hall height Direo: Norman Foster e Orson Welles Elenco: Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Ro, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead Welles After catching the Boys nearly a decade ago I recently got around to grabbing the Warner Archive setsenjoying them immensely and agree Huntz and Hall are under appreciated to the sad point of nearly being forgotten/unknown by the general publicits sad. Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to Gary Hall, son of actor/comedian Huntz Hall. During WWII Hall enlisted in the Army, and after his discharge returned to Hollywood, where his first jobs were in war films playing soldiers (for his impressive work in A Walk in the Sun (1945) he received the New York Theatre Critics Circle Blue Ribbon Award). Basically the group that started as a gang in the Sidney Kingsley Broadway play and then the William Wyler/Goldwyn 1937 film Dead End, appeared in other Warner Films as the Dead End Kids. Despite their cheap values, flimsy sets and second rate supporting cast- the films run to this day ( currently most Saturday mornings on TCM). He was 78. (LogOut/ Learn how your comment data is processed. He was an interesting guy, an intellectual, a liberal, he said. When his father Bernard Gorcey was killed in 1955, Leo only lasted a few more films before they pulled the plug on him. Gary Hall said TV legend Steve Allen impressed him most as a kid. //ap.lijit.com/www/delivery/fpi.js?z=444170&width=300&height=250, src='//get.s-onetag.com/1df3bec5-0972-4ef4-9ce2-28013ed828e4/tag.min.js' async defer, The Night Frank Sinatra Was Snubbed at The Grammy Awards, The Last Hurrah of The Bowery Boys- Leo Gorcey and HuntzHall, View all posts by Http://thelifeandtimesofhollywood.com, https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21wox7, https://www.bestbuy.com/site/the-east-side-kids-dvd/14303817.p?skuId=14303817&ref=212&loc=1&&ref=212&loc=1&ds_rl=1266837&gclid=CjwKCAiA9efgBRAYEiwAUT-jtFLHNnQgtlVmFsbFuWQEFbZMKFke4tfmAsY1heyjRE07SEJHCkWbMBoCh94QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds, //pagead2.googlesyndication.com//td/trtrtdpagead/js/adsbygoogle.js, (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({. Gorcey married actress Evalene Bankston in October 1945, but they divorced two years later. He lived around the corner and he was my fathers mentor, said Gary, 61. First, figure out if it's in the Public Domain. He died from liver failure which was no shock. Primarily comedies, these were undistinguished, but the actor later stated that he benefited from watching the studio's main comic stars in action, particularly Shemp Howard and W.C. Fields. Moe Howard of the Stooges told me that Huntz would hang around with his brother Shemp who mentored him to an extent. Hall confessed that, as a boy, he was embarrassed of his fathers films. at the age of 1 in a play called "Thunder on the Left"; after Gary, who is married to Kathy, has been at Christ Cranbrook Church since January 2010. They had a cadre of well known character actors such as Sheldon Leonard, Amanda Blake, Percy Helton, Dick Elliot and many others. With the passage of the Bowery Boys, Mr. Hall continued to act in television shows and movies. Gary stayed close, even conducting Allens funeral in 2000. He is a member of famous Actor with the age 79 years old group. 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