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Bobby Jordan‌

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1923-04-01

Popularity

star4.0

Bobby Jordan

Harrison, New York, USA

Bobby Jordan

Harrison, New York, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1923-04-01

Popularity

star4.0

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

High Tor

High Tor‌
star7.5
calendar 1956

Kid Dynamite

Kid Dynamite‌
star6.6
calendar 1943

Let's Get Tough

Let's Get Tough‌
star6.0
calendar 1942

Mr. Wise Guy

Mr. Wise Guy‌
star6.1
calendar 1942

Pride of the Bowery

Pride of the Bowery‌
star6.1
calendar 1940

They Made Me a Criminal

They Made Me a Criminal‌
star6.3
calendar 1939

Dust Be My Destiny

Dust Be My Destiny‌
star6.1
calendar 1939

Reformatory

Reformatory‌
star6.0
calendar 1938

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder‌
star6.1
calendar 1938

Dead End

Dead End‌
star7.0
calendar 1937

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces‌
star7.6
calendar 1938

Spooks Run Wild

Spooks Run Wild‌
star4.9
calendar 1941

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Bowery Blitzkrieg‌
star6.1
calendar 1941

The Man Is Armed

The Man Is Armed‌
star4.8
calendar 1956

Ghosts on the Loose

Ghosts on the Loose‌
star4.2
calendar 1943

Spook Busters

Spook Busters‌
star4.7
calendar 1946

Crime School

Crime School‌
star6.3
calendar 1938

Boys of the City

Boys of the City‌
star5.4
calendar 1940

Flying Wild

Flying Wild‌
star5.9
calendar 1941

Bowery Bombshell

Bowery Bombshell‌
star6.0
calendar 1946

Bowery Buckaroos

Bowery Buckaroos‌
star6.5
calendar 1947

Angels Wash Their Faces

Angels Wash Their Faces‌
star6.4
calendar 1939

Smart Alecks

Smart Alecks‌
star6.0
calendar 1942

Treasure of Monte Cristo

Treasure of Monte Cristo‌
star5.6
calendar 1949

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook‌
star10.0
calendar 1991

Swingtime in the Movies

Swingtime in the Movies‌
star5.7
calendar 1938

Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen‌
star6.2
calendar 1939

In Fast Company

In Fast Company‌
star6.3
calendar 1946

On Dress Parade

On Dress Parade‌
star6.3
calendar 1939

Off the Record

Off the Record‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge‌
star6.8
calendar 1942

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

Adventures of the Flying Cadets‌
star6.5
calendar 1943

Give Us Wings

Give Us Wings‌
star6.0
calendar 1940

Mr. Hex

Mr. Hex‌
star6.7
calendar 1946

My Bill

My Bill‌
star6.2
calendar 1938

The Matchmaking Marshal

The Matchmaking Marshal‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

You're Not So Tough

You're Not So Tough‌
star4.3
calendar 1940

Kid Millions

Kid Millions‌
star6.5
calendar 1934

Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison‌
star5.6
calendar 1940

That Gang of Mine

That Gang of Mine‌
star5.6
calendar 1940

Clancy Street Boys

Clancy Street Boys‌
star7.3
calendar 1943

Junior Army

Junior Army‌
star5.7
calendar 1942

Bowery Champs

Bowery Champs‌
star7.0
calendar 1944

Live Wires

Live Wires‌
star5.5
calendar 1946

News Hounds

News Hounds‌
star6.3
calendar 1947

Keep 'Em Slugging

Keep 'Em Slugging‌
star5.5
calendar 1943

Secret of Outlaw Flats

Secret of Outlaw Flats‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

Destroyer

Destroyer‌
star6.6
calendar 1943

Hard Boiled Mahoney

Hard Boiled Mahoney‌
star6.4
calendar 1947

The Eddie Cantor Story

The Eddie Cantor Story‌
star5.0
calendar 1953

Military Academy

Military Academy‌
star5.5
calendar 1940

The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End‌
star6.5
calendar 1947

Tv Credits

Dragnet

Dragnet‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Rawhide

Rawhide‌
star7.0
calendar 1959

The Millionaire

The Millionaire‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Richard Diamond, Private Detective‌
star6.0
calendar 1957

M Squad

M Squad‌
star5.2
calendar 1957

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok‌
star4.5
calendar 1951

Casey Jones

Casey Jones‌
star5.5
calendar 1957

Maverick

Maverick‌
star6.8
calendar 1957

Route 66

Route 66‌
star6.4
calendar 1960

Maverick

Maverick‌
star6.8
calendar 1957

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
star6.7
calendar 1958

Bonanza

Bonanza‌
star7.5
calendar 1959

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple‌
star7.8
calendar 1970

The Adventures of Boston Blackie

The Adventures of Boston Blackie‌
star4.0
calendar 1951