Huntz Hall

Acting

Huntz Hall

Born — Died

1919-08-15 — 1999-01-30

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Popular motion picture actor of the 1930s to 1990s. Fondly remembered for his role of 'Sach' in a number of East Side Kids and Bowery Boys films.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

1950s · 15 titles

Jail Busters poster
6.7

Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story.

Jail Busters

1955

Triple Trouble poster
7.0

Slip and Sach take the rap for a robbery they did not commit in order to uncover the real robbers, whom they suspect are led by a convict who gives orders to his gang outside via a short-wave radio stashed somewhere in the prison.

Triple Trouble

1950

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters poster
5.4

Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

1954

Let's Go Navy! poster
8.0

The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.

Let's Go Navy!

1951

Hot Shots poster
6.2

Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.

Hot Shots

1956

Ghost Chasers poster
6.8

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

Ghost Chasers

1951

Dig That Uranium poster
4.2

The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.

Dig That Uranium

1955

Jalopy poster
5.3

Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.

Jalopy

1953

Crashing Las Vegas poster
5.7

An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.

Crashing Las Vegas

1956

Crazy Over Horses poster
6.7

The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers

Crazy Over Horses

1951

Here Come the Marines poster
7.3

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.

Here Come the Marines

1952

In the Money poster
6.7

The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.

In the Money

1958

Bowery Battalion poster
8.0

Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

Bowery Battalion

1951

High Society poster
5.7

Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out of his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.

High Society

1955

Up In Smoke poster
6.0

In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.

Up In Smoke

1957

1940s · 23 titles

A Walk in the Sun poster
5.9

It's 1943 and the allied landings in and around the town of Salerno,Italy are underway.A platoon from the U.S 36th Infantry Division is tasked with advancing 6 miles inland to blow a bridge before clearing a nearby farmhouse, with the hope of blocking an expected counter attack on the Division's bridgehead.

A Walk in the Sun

1945

Tough as They Come poster
9.0

The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.

Tough as They Come

1942

Spooks Run Wild poster
5.1

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Spooks Run Wild

1941

Private Buckaroo poster
5.0

A rebellious young inductee has trouble toeing the line until he meets a retired officer's lovely daughter. James and his band are also drafted and decide to perk up their camp by putting on a big show.

Private Buckaroo

1942

Bowery Bombshell poster
6.5

Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey and Chuck unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.

Bowery Bombshell

1946

Wonder Man poster
6.6

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

Wonder Man

1945

Live Wires poster
5.6

Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages to get a job with the District Attorney serving warrants, as does Sach. Through his job, Slip finds out that all is not quite kosher at his old construction company, and that his sister may be in danger.

Live Wires

1946

Bring on the Girls poster
6.2

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.

Bring on the Girls

1945

Ghosts on the Loose poster
4.2

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Ghosts on the Loose

1943

Angels' Alley poster
5.2

Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.

Angels' Alley

1948

Let's Get Tough poster
5.3

Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead.

Let's Get Tough

1942

Mr. Wise Guy poster
6.6

The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.

Mr. Wise Guy

1942

Junior G-Men of the Air poster
6.3

A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.

Junior G-Men of the Air

1942

Mug Town poster
8.5

Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.

Mug Town

1942

In Fast Company poster
6.8

The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.

In Fast Company

1946

Junior Army poster
6.2

An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.

Junior Army

1942

Keep 'Em Slugging poster
5.8

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

Keep 'Em Slugging

1943

Docks of New York poster
8.0

The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.

Docks of New York

1945

Give Us Wings poster
7.3

Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

Give Us Wings

1940

Master Minds poster
6.5

When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.

Master Minds

1949

Jinx Money poster
5.6

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.

Jinx Money

1948

Mr. Hex poster
7.2

Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.

Mr. Hex

1946

Kid Dynamite poster
6.7

The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.

Kid Dynamite

1943

1930s · 8 titles

Dead End poster
7.0

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

Dead End

1937

Angels with Dirty Faces poster
7.5

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938

The Return of Doctor X poster
6.0

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

The Return of Doctor X

1939

They Made Me a Criminal poster
6.3

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

They Made Me a Criminal

1939

Crime School poster
6.4

In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.

Crime School

1938

Angels Wash Their Faces poster
6.7

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.

Angels Wash Their Faces

1939

Hell's Kitchen poster
6.8

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.

Hell's Kitchen

1939

Little Tough Guy poster
5.7

The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.

Little Tough Guy

1938

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