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Bobby Jordan
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Bobby Jordan
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1923-04-01,Harrison, New York, USA
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

7.5

High Tor
1956-03-10

6.6

Kid Dynamite
1943-02-05

Let's Get Tough

6

Let's Get Tough
1942-05-29

6.1

Mr. Wise Guy
1942-02-20

Pride of the Bowery

6.1

Pride of the Bowery
1940-12-15

They Made Me a Criminal

6.3

They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21

Dust Be My Destiny

6.235

Dust Be My Destiny
1939-09-16

6

Reformatory
1938-06-20

A Slight Case of Murder

6.113

A Slight Case of Murder
1938-02-26

7

Dead End
1937-08-27

Angels with Dirty Faces

7.5

Angels with Dirty Faces
1938-11-26

Spooks Run Wild

4.8

Spooks Run Wild
1941-10-24

Bowery Blitzkrieg

6.1

Bowery Blitzkrieg
1941-08-01

The Man Is Armed

4.8

The Man Is Armed
1956-10-19

Ghosts on the Loose

4.2

Ghosts on the Loose
1943-07-30

4.7

Spook Busters
1946-08-24

6.3

Crime School
1938-05-10

Boys of the City

5.4

Boys of the City
1940-07-15

5.9

Flying Wild
1941-03-10

Bowery Bombshell

6

Bowery Bombshell
1946-07-20

Bowery Buckaroos

6.5

Bowery Buckaroos
1947-11-22

Angels Wash Their Faces

6.4

Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26

6

Smart Alecks
1942-08-07

Treasure of Monte Cristo

5.6

Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949-08-27

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

10

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01

Swingtime in the Movies

5.8

Swingtime in the Movies
1938-12-24

6.2

Hell's Kitchen
1939-07-08

In Fast Company

6.3

In Fast Company
1946-06-22

On Dress Parade

6.3

On Dress Parade
1939-11-18

6

Off the Record
1939-01-21

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
1942-01-01

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

6.8

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942-11-20

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

6.5

Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943-09-07

6

Give Us Wings
1940-12-20

6.7

Mr. Hex
1946-11-09

6.2

My Bill
1938-07-08

The Matchmaking Marshal

0

The Matchmaking Marshal
1955-05-08

You're Not So Tough

4.3

You're Not So Tough
1940-07-26

6.5

Kid Millions
1934-11-10

Young Tom Edison

5.6

Young Tom Edison
1940-03-15

That Gang of Mine

5.6

That Gang of Mine
1940-09-23

Clancy Street Boys

7.3

Clancy Street Boys
1943-04-23

5.7

Junior Army
1942-11-26

7

Bowery Champs
1944-11-25

5.5

Live Wires
1946-01-12

6.3

News Hounds
1947-08-13

Keep 'Em Slugging

5.5

Keep 'Em Slugging
1943-03-01

Secret of Outlaw Flats

0

Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953-11-15

6.6

Destroyer
1943-08-19

Hard Boiled Mahoney

6.4

Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947-05-10

The Eddie Cantor Story

5

The Eddie Cantor Story
1953-12-25

Military Academy

5.5

Military Academy
1940-08-06

The Beginning or the End

6.5

The Beginning or the End
1947-02-19

6.4

Dragnet
1951-12-16

7.182

Rawhide
1959-01-09

The Millionaire

5

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

Lux Video Theatre

6

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01

5.2

M Squad
1957-09-20

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951-04-15

5.5

Casey Jones
1957-10-08

6.8

Maverick
1957-09-22

6.3

Route 66
1960-10-07

6.8

Maverick
1957-09-22

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

7.5

Bonanza
1959-09-12

7.8

The Odd Couple
1970-09-24

The Adventures of Boston Blackie

4

The Adventures of Boston Blackie
1951-09-08