Huntz Hall got his start in the Broadway play "Dead End", as a member of a street gang with Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Gabriel Dell, and Bobby Jordan. When Samuel Goldwyn brought it to the screen in 1937 the entire street gang was brought along. Now stars, Warner Brothers featured the six young hoodlums in a series of hard hitting social commentary A Productions billed as the Dead End Kids.

Warners dropped the gang in 1939. Leo Gorcey took Bobby Jordan with him to Monogram studios and started the East Side Kids series. Hall and the rest of the group went to Universal where they were billed as the Little Tough Guys. Both series bounced between social dramas and slapstick comedies.

During his tenure at Universal hall and rest of the Little Tough Guys appeared in three serials. "Junior G-Men" (1940) had the gang fighting a group of fascists who had kidnapped leader Billy Halop's father. Next up was "Sea Raiders" (1941) where Hall discovered his uncle was helping a gang of terrorists sink American supply ships as well as trying to steal a new experimental torpedo boat invented by Halop's older brother. Their last serial "Junior G-Men of the Air" (1942) had the gang trying to keep Japanese spies from stealing a new plane engine invented by a teenage genius friend.

As if that wasn't enough work Hall also began appearing in East Side Kids movies in 1941. He would switch back and forth until the Little Tough Guys ended in 1943. Hall would continue with the East Side Kids until their demise in 1945. It was then that leader Leo Gorcey revamped the series into the more farcical Bowery Boys. Which was a good idea since all of the "kids" were in their thirties by this time.

It is in this series that hall would perfect his comedic character of the rubber faced coward with the effeminate hand gestures. The series lasted well in to the fifties. Gorcey retired from acting in 1956 when his father Bernard Gorcey died. Hall was left as the star of the series for the final two years of his contract.

After the Bowery Boys ended in 1958 Hall became a character actor appearing in such films as "Gentle Giant" (1967), "Gas Pump Girls" (1979) and "Cyclone" (1987) playing crotchety old men.