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name: "Bernard Punsly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bernard-punsly"
fi1m_id: "bernard-punsly"
imdb_id: "nm0700603"
tmdb_id: 95298
wikidata_id: "Q4893552"
roles: []
born: "11 July 1923"
died: "20 January 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T02:42:33.990624+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bernard Punsly

## Identity

Bernard Punsly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bernard-punsly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bernard-punsly
- **IMDb ID:** nm0700603
- **TMDB ID:** 95298
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4893552
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Punsly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4893552, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700603/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/95298

Actor. Born 11 July 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 20 January 2004.

## Details

- **Born:** 11 July 1923, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 20 January 2004
- **Active:** 1937–1938
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Punsly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4893552, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700603/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/95298

## Biography

Bernard Punsly was an American actor known for his roles in the Dead End Kids films of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Born in New York City, he began his professional acting career as a child on Broadway. At age 12 he was cast as Milty in the 1935 play *Dead End*, reprising the role in the 1937 film adaptation.

Punsly appeared in around 19 films, including *Dead End* (1937) as Milty, *Angels with Dirty Faces* (1938) as Hunky, *They Made Me a Criminal* (1939) as Milt, and other entries in the series such as *Crime School* (1938) and *Hell's Kitchen* (1939). He left acting in 1943 to join the US Army, where he received medical training. After the war he qualified as a physician, practising for nearly 50 years in the Los Angeles area and serving as chief of medicine at a Torrance hospital. He died in Torrance, California, in 2004.

*Sources: imdb.com, nytimes.com, latimes.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Angels with Dirty Faces* (1938), Fi1m 82, as Hunky — [page](https://film.one/film/angels-with-dirty-faces.md)
- *Dead End* (1937), Fi1m 73, as Milty — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-end.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mug Town* (1942), as Ape
- *Dead End Kids Go To War* (1942), as "Greaseball" Plankett
- *Junior G-Men of the Air* (1942), as Creaseball Plunkett
- *Tough as They Come* (1942), as Ape
- *Sea Raiders* (1941), as Butch
- *Mob Town* (1941), as Ape
- *Hit the Road* (1941), as Ape
- *Give Us Wings* (1940), as Ape
- *Junior G-Men* (1940), as Lug
- *Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.* (1940), as Lug
- *You're Not So Tough* (1940), as Ape
- *On Dress Parade* (1939), as Dutch (as Bernard Punsley)
- *Angels Wash Their Faces* (1939), as Luke "Sleepy" Arkelian (as Bernard Punsley)
- *Hell's Kitchen* (1939), as Ouch
- *They Made Me a Criminal* (1939), as Milt
- *Angels with Dirty Faces* (1938), as Hunky — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/angels-with-dirty-faces.md)
- *Little Tough Guy* (1938), as Ape
- *Crime School* (1938), as George "Fats" Papadopolous
- *Dead End* (1937), as Milty — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-end.md)

## Gallery

- ![Bernard Punsley in trailer to "Little Tough Guy" (1938) (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/1229821/gallery-c2f0250ef917.jpg) Bernard Punsley in trailer to "Little Tough Guy" (1938) (2013) — Trailer to "Little Tough Guy" (1938), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Bernard-punsley-trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Bernard Punsly](https://film.one/media/person/1229821/gallery-e6cc4d578994.jpg) Bernard Punsly — Image via TMDB

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