Huntz Hall attended Catholic schools and started performing on radio at five years of age.
12 Facts About Huntz Hall
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Huntz Hall appeared on Broadway in the 1935 production of Dead End, a play written and directed by Sidney Kingsley.
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Huntz Hall was then cast along with the other Dead End Kids in the 1937 film Dead End, directed by William Wyler and starring Humphrey Bogart.
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Huntz Hall served in the United States Army during World War II.
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Huntz Hall's trial, held in 1949, resulted in a hung jury.
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Huntz Hall later played the increasingly buffoonish Horace DeBussy "Sach" Jones in 48 of "The Bowery Boys" films, gaining top billing when his longtime partner, Leo Gorcey, left the series in 1956.
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Huntz Hall appeared in such films as The Return of Doctor X, A Walk in the Sun, Gentle Giant, Herbie Rides Again, and The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery opposite Gabriel Dell, another former Bowery Boy.
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Huntz Hall was one of the celebrities featured on the cover of The Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt.
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In 1973, Huntz Hall took part in Princess Grace of Monaco's Council for Drug Abuse, part of the Catholic Office of Drug Education.
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Huntz Hall performed in dinner theater productions and then retired in 1994.
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Huntz Hall died from congestive heart failure on January 30,1999, at the age of 78 in North Hollywood, California.
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Huntz Hall was interred in a niche at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California.