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Bernard Punsly is a Actor American born on 11 july 1923 at New York City (USA)
Bernard Punsly (July 11, 1923 – January 20, 2004) was a New York City-born American actor who later left show business to become a physician.
His last name was often spelled incorrectly in film credits as Punsley.
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Nationality USA
Birth 11 july 1923 at New York City (USA)
Death 20 january 2004 (at 80 years) at Torrance (USA)
Birth 11 july 1923 at New York City (USA)
Death 20 january 2004 (at 80 years) at Torrance (USA)
His last name was often spelled incorrectly in film credits as Punsley.
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Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Billy Halop, Gene Reynolds, Lionel Atwill, Frank Albertson, Richard Lane, William Benedict
Roles Creaseball Plunkett
Rating60%
Japanese saboteurs attack the US in preparation for an invasion during World War II. They are discovered by "Ace" Holden and The Dead End Kids, who do not trust the police enough to help the government. To overcome this, the "Junior G-Men" (the Little Tough Guys) are sent by the FBI to stop the spies.
Hit the Road (1941)
, 1h1Directed by Joe May
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Gladys George, Barton MacLane, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly
Roles Ape
Rating59%
Delinquent gang members Tom (Billy Halop), Pig (Huntz Hall), Ape (Bernard Punsly), and String (Gabriel Dell) are trying to break out from the reformatory their confined to, but they are caught and brought to the parole officer Cathy Crookshank (Eily Malyon). All of the gang members are sons of gangsters, which makes it even harder for them to get paroled. They tell their superintendent this, and that they have no sponsor. To remedy this, Miss Crookshank asks the leader of the boys fathers' gang, Valentine (Barton MacLane), to come to her office. Valentine is barely released from prison. He is reluctant to help the boys, arguing that he is a reformed man and is now living on a farm with his wife Molly (Gladys George) and their daughter Pat (Evelyn Ankers). He has also decided to take a new name, "Ryan.
Sea Raiders (1941)
Directed by John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Hal E. Chester, William Hall
Roles Butch
Rating57%
The Sea Raiders, a band of foreign agents, led by Carl Tonjes and Elliott Carlton, blow up a freighter on which Billy Adams and Toby Nelson are stowaways, seeking to avoid Brack Warren, a harbor patrol officer assigned to guard a new type of torpedo boat built by Billy's brother, Tom Adams. Intended targets or not, getting blown up does not set well with Billy and Toby and, together with their gang coupled with the members of the Little Tough Guys, they find the Sea Raiders' island hideout, investigate the seacoast underground arsenal of these saboteurs, get blasted from the air, dragged to their doom, become victims of the storm, entombed in a tunnel and even periled by a panther before they don the uniforms of some captured Sea Raiders and board a yacht that serves as headquarters for the Raiders.
Give Us Wings (1940)
, 1h2Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Bobby Jordan, Shemp Howard
Roles Ape
Rating54%
The Dead End Kids work as airplane mechanics in the National Youth Administration Work Program plant. Feeling that they have enough knowledge of planes, they feel the urge to want to become pilots. The boys are hired by crop dusting operator Arnold Carter to become pilots. Upon being hired, York (Carter's manager) feels that the boys are far too inexperienced to fly, and assigns them to ground work. When Carter's company falls beind in their contracts, the Dead End Kids are forced to learn the ropes of flying. Eventually, York agrees that all of the boys are ready to become pilots,
Junior G-Men (1940)
Directed by John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Hal E. Chester, Phillip Terry
Roles Lug
Rating64%
A group of saboteurs called the "Order of the Flaming Torch" who are trying to undermine the "social order" of the United States kidnaps several prominent scientists, including the father of a local street gang member. The gang team up with the FBI and the "Junior G-Men" in order to stop the saboteurs.
You're Not So Tough (1940)
, 1h5Directed by Joe May
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Bobby Jordan, Hal E. Chester
Roles Ape
Rating62%
The Dead End Kids ride a freight train through California. After the kids get arrested for vagrancy, members Tom and Pig are hired to work on a ranch owned by kindly Mama Posito. Tom learns that Posito hasn't seen her son in years, but believes that he may still be alive. In an attempt to steal her money, Tom decides to pose as her son. However, Posito's benevolency soon gets the best of Tom, and he decides to stay with her for love, rather than for greed.
Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
, 1h26Directed by Ray Enright
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Ronald Reagan, Bernard Punsly, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall
Roles Luke "Sleepy" Arkelian (as Bernard Punsley)
Rating60%
Gabe Ryan (Frankie Thomas) is released from reform school and it taken to a new house by his sister Joy (Ann Sheridan) to start a new life where no one knows of his past. However, Gabe immediately joins a local gang, the Beale Street Termites, where he meets up with William Kroner (Bernard Nedell), a local gangster. William accuses him of starting a fire at one of his properties, and Alfred Martino (Eduardo Ciannelli), the actual arsonist, uses this opportunity to frame Gabe for any fire. He decides to torch one of his apartment complexes so that he can collect the insurance money. Unfortunately, one of the kids, Sleepy (Bernard Punsly) is killed in the fire.
Hell's Kitchen (1939)
, 1h22Directed by Ewald André Dupont, Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Ronald Reagan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Roles Ouch
Rating63%
Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields) is a paroled convict who makes a contribution to a reform school on the advice of his nephew, Jim Donahue (Ronald Reagan), a lawyer. Jim feels that the boys in the reform school, including Tony (Billy Halop), Gyp (Leo Gorcey), Joey (Bobby Jordan), Bongo (Huntz Hall), Ace (Gabriel Dell), and "Ouch" (Bernard Punsly), could benefit from the contribution and he believes the publicity from it will help his uncle.
On Dress Parade (1939)
, 1h2Directed by William Clemens, Noel M. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsly
Roles Dutch (as Bernard Punsley)
Rating59%
A hero of World War I, Colonel William Duncan (Don Douglas), is on his deathbed. He summons his old friend, Colonel Mitchell Reiker (John Litel) to ask him if he will care for his son Slip (Leo Gorcey) when he dies. Reiker agrees, and when Duncan passes, Slip, who does not want to leave the neighborhood he grew up in, is tricked into attending the military school that Reiker is in charge of.
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
, 1h32Directed by Busby Berkeley, Hal B. Wallis, Benjamin Glazer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors John Garfield, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, May Robson, Gloria Dickson, Billy Halop
Roles Milt
Rating67%
Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield) is a world champion boxer falsely accused of murder. He disappeared and is presumed dead. The only witnesses who could have exonerated him were his manager and girlfriend, both of whom have died in an automobile accident. Detective Monty Phalen (Claude Rains) believes that Johnnie is still alive and hasn't given up the search for him. Johnnie, meanwhile, is hiding out on Grandma Rafferty's (May Robson) farm in Arizona. It is there that Johnnie meets up with some juvenile delinquents, Tommy (Billy Halop), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), Dippy (Huntz Hall), T.B. (Gabriel Dell), and Milty (Bernard Punsly), who are under the guardianship of Tommy's sister Peggy (Gloria Dickson).
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
, 1h37Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about capital punishment, Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop
Roles Hunky
Rating78%
Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) are childhood friends who robbed a railroad car as kids. Rocky saved Jerry's life during the chase by pulling him out of the way of a steam train while running from the guards that saw them. Rocky was then caught by the police, but Jerry—who could run faster—escaped. Rocky, after being sent to reform school, grew up to become a notorious gangster, while Jerry became a religious priest who mentored at-risk youth.
Crime School (1938)
, 1h26Directed by William Clemens, Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey
Roles George "Fats" Papadopolous
Rating64%
A junkman (Frank Otto) does business with the Dead End Kids: Frankie (Billy Halop), Squirt (Bobby Jordan), Spike (Leo Gorcey), Goofy (Huntz Hall), Fats (Bernard Punsly), and Bugs (Gabriel Dell). When the boys ask for a $20 payoff, "Junkie" says "Five is all you'll get. Now take it and get out of here." In a rage, Spike strikes the man in the back of the head with a hard object, and the junkman falls to the floor and doesn't move. When Judge Clinton (Charles Trowbridge) cannot convince the boys to divulge which one struck the damaging blow, they are all sent to reform school.
Little Tough Guy (1938)
, 1h26Directed by Harold Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Billy Halop, Robert Wilcox, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, David Gorcey
Roles Ape
Rating60%
Johnny Boylan's (Billy Halop) father was sentenced to death for a crime that he was never fully proven to have committed. He and his family move to a poorer section of the East Side in New York City. His sister, Kay (Helen Parrish) resorts to dancing in a burlesque theater after she is fired from her job. Her former fiance, Paul Wilson (Robert Wilcox), still cares for her and wants to help her, but she avoids him because of the shame she is feeling.
Dead End (1937)
, 1h33Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins
Roles Milty
Rating71%
In the filthy slums of New York, wealthy people have built luxury apartments there because of the view of the picturesque East River. While they live in opulence, the destitute and dirt poor live nearby in crowded, filthy tenements.