Editing Huntz Hall (section)

==Life and career==
Hall was born in 1920 in New York City<ref name=ssdi>[[Social Security Death Index]]</ref> to Joseph Patrick Hall, an engineer from Ireland, and his wife, Mary Ellen ({{nee}} Mullen) Hall.<ref name=age>Leonard Getz in his 2006 book ''From Broadway to the Bowery'' published by [[McFarland & Company]] uses August 15, but the more authoritative [[Social Security Death Index]] uses August 18, 1920. [[The Independent]] uses August 15, 1919, and the [[New York Times]] lists his age as 78, which would make his birth year 1920. Walker and Roat's biography uses 1919. As was the case with many actors, their resumes often conflict with official documents submitted to the government.</ref> The fourteenth of sixteen children, he was nicknamed "Huntz" because of his nose.<ref>{{citation|title=Huntz Hall|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/huntz-hall-p29775|publisher=[[Allmovie]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Leonard Getz|author-link=Leonard Getz|title=From Broadway to the Bowery |year=2006 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=luFkAAAAMAAJ |isbn=0-7864-2535-0 }}</ref> He attended Catholic schools<ref name=independent>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-huntz-hall-1068351.html|title=Huntz Hall|work=[[The Independent]]|date=1999-03-03 | access-date=May 17, 2010 | location=London, UK | first=Tom | last=Vallance}}</ref> and started performing on radio at five years of age.<ref name=nyt/>

He appeared on Broadway in the 1935 production of ''Dead End'', a play written and directed by [[Sidney Kingsley]].<ref name=ibdb>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=43760|title=Huntz Hall|work=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|publisher=[[The Broadway League]]|access-date=June 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1963|title=BROADWAY TO BOWERY AND BACK: Huntz Hall reveals the secrets behind the Dead End Kids, East Side Kids & Bowery Boys|url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Thrills_Illustrated_No._05_v02n01_1963-07_c2c_bones666-DREGS/page/n37|journal=Screen Thrills Illustrated|number=5 (v02n01)|pages=37}}</ref> Hall was then cast along with the other Dead End Kids in the 1937 film ''[[Dead End (1937 film)|Dead End]]'', directed by [[William Wyler]] and starring [[Humphrey Bogart]].<ref name=BB>{{cite book |last1=Hayes |first1=David |title=The Films of the Bowery Boys |date=1984 |publisher=The Citadel Press |location=Secaucus, NJ |isbn=978-0806509310}}</ref>

Hall served in the United States Army during World War II.{{CN|date=August 2024}} In 1943, he appeared in the USN training film "Don't Kill Your Friends" as moronic Ensign [[Robert Osborn (satirist)#The Dilbert years|Dilbert the Pilot]], who carelessly causes the death of a civilian and three servicemen.<ref>{{cite web |title=Don't Kill Your Friends (WWII Training Video) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nDsbOcYO8 |website=YouTube |access-date=31 August 2024}}</ref>
[[File:Dont Kill Your Friends.ogv|thumb|''Dilbert: Don't Kill Your Friends'', 1943]]

In 1948, Hall was arrested for possession of marijuana. His trial, held in 1949, resulted in a [[hung jury]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-huntz-hall-1068351.html|title=Obituary: Huntz Hall | location=London | work=The Independent|first=Tom|last=Vallance|date=February 3, 1999}}</ref>

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. Hall and Gorcey reunited in ''[[Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar]]'' (1966) and ''[[The Phynx]]'' (1969).

He was one of the celebrities featured on the cover of [[The Beatles]]' 1967 album, ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. In 1971, he co-starred with Art Metrano and Jamie Farr in the CBS [[situation comedy]] ''[[The Chicago Teddy Bears]]''. His plans to produce a movie series, "The Ghetto Boys" (a take on the "[[The Bowery Boys|Bowery Boys]]"), fell through. In 1973, Hall took part in Princess Grace of Monaco's Council for Drug Abuse, part of the Catholic Office of Drug Education.<ref>David Ragan. "[[Who's Who in Hollywood 1900-1976]]", Arlington House, 1976, p. 176.</ref>

In 1976, he appeared in ''[[Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood]],'' and in 1977 he played Jesse Lasky in [[Ken Russell]]'s film ''[[Valentino (1977 film)|Valentino]].'' His later films included ''[[Gas Pump Girls]]'' (1979) and ''[[The Escape Artist (film)|The Escape Artist]]'' (1982), the latter reuniting him with Gabriel Dell. His final film appearance was in ''Auntie Lee's Meat Pies'' in 1993.<ref name=nyt/>
 	
''Behind Sach: The Huntz Hall Story'' by Jim Manago, published by BearManor Media in 2015, is the first biography of Hall.