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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

8.333

High Tor
1956-03-10

7

Kid Dynamite
1943-02-05

Let's Get Tough

5.375

Let's Get Tough
1942-05-29

6.625

Mr. Wise Guy
1942-02-20

Pride of the Bowery

6.2

Pride of the Bowery
1940-12-15

They Made Me a Criminal

6.321

They Made Me a Criminal
1939-01-21

Dust Be My Destiny

6.45

Dust Be My Destiny
1939-09-16

6.5

Reformatory
1938-06-20

A Slight Case of Murder

6.402

A Slight Case of Murder
1938-02-26

7.057

Dead End
1937-08-27

Angels with Dirty Faces

7.5

Angels with Dirty Faces
1938-11-26

Spooks Run Wild

5.096

Spooks Run Wild
1941-10-24

Bowery Blitzkrieg

6.136

Bowery Blitzkrieg
1941-08-01

The Man Is Armed

5.227

The Man Is Armed
1956-10-19

Ghosts on the Loose

4.229

Ghosts on the Loose
1943-07-30

5.5

Spook Busters
1946-08-24

6.396

Crime School
1938-05-10

Boys of the City

5.231

Boys of the City
1940-07-15

6.1

Flying Wild
1941-03-10

Bowery Bombshell

6.5

Bowery Bombshell
1946-07-20

Bowery Buckaroos

6.6

Bowery Buckaroos
1947-11-22

Angels Wash Their Faces

6.667

Angels Wash Their Faces
1939-08-26

5.778

Smart Alecks
1942-08-07

Treasure of Monte Cristo

5.182

Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949-08-27

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

9.5

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01

Swingtime in the Movies

6

Swingtime in the Movies
1938-12-24

6.833

Hell's Kitchen
1939-07-08

In Fast Company

6.75

In Fast Company
1946-06-22

On Dress Parade

6.6

On Dress Parade
1939-11-18

6.4

Off the Record
1939-01-21

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

10

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

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

6.318

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942-11-20

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

6.667

Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943-09-07

7.333

Give Us Wings
1940-12-20

7.25

Mr. Hex
1946-11-09

6.611

My Bill
1938-07-08

The Matchmaking Marshal

8

The Matchmaking Marshal
1955-05-08

You're Not So Tough

5

You're Not So Tough
1940-07-26

6.714

Kid Millions
1934-11-10

Young Tom Edison

5.909

Young Tom Edison
1940-03-15

That Gang of Mine

5.769

That Gang of Mine
1940-09-23

Clancy Street Boys

6.6

Clancy Street Boys
1943-04-23

6.25

Junior Army
1942-11-26

7.333

Bowery Champs
1944-11-25

5.643

Live Wires
1946-01-12

6.8

News Hounds
1947-08-13

Keep 'Em Slugging

5.8

Keep 'Em Slugging
1943-03-01

Secret of Outlaw Flats

7

Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953-11-15

6.781

Destroyer
1943-08-19

The Eddie Cantor Story

7.5

The Eddie Cantor Story
1953-12-25

Hard Boiled Mahoney

6.833

Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947-05-10

Military Academy

7

Military Academy
1940-08-06

The Beginning or the End

6.423

The Beginning or the End
1947-02-19

Classic Comedy Teams

7

Classic Comedy Teams
1986-01-01

6.5

Dragnet
1951-12-16

7.224

Rawhide
1959-01-09

The Millionaire

5.75

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.8

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01

5.429

M Squad
1957-09-20

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

5.333

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951-04-15

5.8

Casey Jones
1957-10-08

6.94

Maverick
1957-09-22

6.725

Route 66
1960-10-07

6.94

Maverick
1957-09-22

77 Sunset Strip

7.1

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

7.521

Bonanza
1959-09-12

7.821

The Odd Couple
1970-09-24

4

Boston Blackie
1951-09-08

6.1

Highway Patrol
1955-10-03