Dead End

Bernard Punsly, the last of cinema’s Dead End Kids, died last week at the age of 80. The on-screen hooligans, including Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan and Leo Gorcey, were sort of a juvenile delinquent version of Our Gang, and appeared in a number of films in the 1930s and ‘40s. The silver screen’s version of Moonlight Graham, Punsly appeared in 19 films, then retired to a career of medicine, practicing for 50 years in and around Los Angeles. Punsly and Hall represented the Kids when they were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.