Bobby Jordan
Acting
Born 1923-04-01
Died 1965-09-10
Harrison, New York, USA
69 credits
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Though he was the youngest, Jordan was the first of the boys who made up the Dead End Kids to work in films with a role in a 1933 Universal short. In 1935, he became one of the original Dead End Kids by winning the role of Angel in Sydney Kingsley's Broadway drama Dead End about life in the slums of the east side of New York City. The play was performed at the Belasco Theatre and ran for three years with over 600 performances. He appeared for the first season and the beginning of the second but left in mid-November 1936. He returned in time to join the others in 1937 in Hollywood, California to make the movie version of the play, starring big names such as Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, and Claire Trevor.
Following the making of Dead End, Jordan found himself "released" from his contract at Goldwyn, and, subsequently, he appeared at Warner Brothers with the rest of the Dead End Kids. After one year, Warners released most of them, but kept Leo Gorcey and Jordan as solo performers. Jordan appeared (as "Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom") in Warner's Damon Runyon comedy A Slight Case of Murder (1938) and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Young Tom Edison (1940).
In 1940, Jordan appeared in the film Military Academy and accepted an offer from producer Sam Katzman to star in a new tough-kid series called "The East Side Kids." Leo Gorcey soon joined him, then Huntz Hall, and the trio continued to lead the series through 1943, when Jordan entered the United States Army during World War II as a foot soldier in the 97th Infantry Division. He was subsequently involved in an elevator accident, when the elevator fell five floors, that forced him to have surgery to remove his right kneecap.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Bonanza
Maverick
Highway Patrol
Route 66
The Odd Couple
77 Sunset Strip
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Millionaire
M Squad
Boston Blackie
Lux Video Theatre
Casey Jones
Angels with Dirty Faces
Dead End
Live Wires
Young Tom Edison
They Made Me a Criminal
Ghosts on the Loose
Kid Millions
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
The Beginning or the End
On Dress Parade
Destroyer
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Give Us Wings
Hell's Kitchen
Crime School
That Gang of Mine
Angels Wash Their Faces
Mr. Wise Guy
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Junior Army
Bowery Champs
Reformatory
Keep 'Em Slugging
A Slight Case of Murder
Spooks Run Wild
Bowery Blitzkrieg
My Bill
Dust Be My Destiny
Classic Comedy Teams
Bowery Buckaroos
High Tor
Smart Alecks
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
In Fast Company
News Hounds
Mr. Hex
You're Not So Tough
Boys of the City
The Matchmaking Marshal
The Man Is Armed
Clancy Street Boys
Off the Record
Let's Get Tough
Flying Wild
Military Academy
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