Gabriel Dell

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Gabriel Dell (born Gabriel Marcel Dell Vecchio) (October 4, 1919 – July 3, 1988) was an American actor; one of the more unusual members of what came to be known as the East Side Kids/Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys. <p>Born in Brooklyn, Dell was, perhaps, the most successful of all of the gang away from their films. Dell almost made his stage debut a few years before Dead End when he and his sister were slated for roles in The Good Earth with Alla Nazimova and Claude Raines. <p>By the time he was cast in Dead End he had changed his last name to Dell, and after achieving fame with the other youthful thugs, Dell moved back and forth between Warner Bros., Universal and Monogram during the guys' heyday, appearing as a member of the Dead End Kids, East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys before leaving the series in 1950. <p>He won a role in Tickets Please on Broadway, and also toured with former gang buddy Huntz Hall in a nightclub partnership that eventually caused them both to become divorced. Dell spent...