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person_profile-Bobby Jordan

Bobby Jordan Died at age: 42

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Bobby Jordan

Date of Birth:

Apr 01, 1923

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Sep 10, 1965

Biography of

Bobby Jordan

    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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Bobby Jordan

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Filmography of

Bobby Jordan

Found 51 Movies in total

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Danny (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1991

The Man Is Armed

Thorne (as Bob Jordan) ( Actor )

... 1956

High Tor

3rd Sailor ( Actor )

... 1956

The Matchmaking Marshal

Steven 'Steve' Manson ( Actor )

... 1955

The Eddie Cantor Story

Customer ( Actor )

... 1953

Secret of Outlaw Flats

Sandy Smith ( Actor )

... 1953

Treasure of Monte Cristo

Tony Torecelli ( Actor )

... 1949

Bowery Buckaroos

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1947

News Hounds

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1947

Hard Boiled Mahoney

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1947

The Beginning or the End

Radioman on Tinian Receiving A-Bomb Message ( Actor )

... 1947

Mr. Hex

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1946

Spook Busters

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1946

Bowery Bombshell

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1946

In Fast Company

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1946

Live Wires

Bobby ( Actor )

... 1946

Bowery Champs

Bobby Jordan ( Actor )

... 1944

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

Jinx Roberts ( Actor )

... 1943

Destroyer

Sobbing Sailor ( Actor )

... 1943

Ghosts on the Loose

Danny ( Actor )

... 1943

Clancy Street Boys

Danny ( Actor )

... 1943

Keep 'Em Slugging

Tommy ( Actor )

... 1943

Kid Dynamite

Danny Lions ( Actor )

... 1943

Junior Army

Jockey ( Actor )

... 1942

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

Danny Lyons ( Actor )

... 1942

Smart Alecks

Danny Stevens ( Actor )

... 1942

Let's Get Tough

Danny Connors ( Actor )

... 1942

Mr. Wise Guy

Danny Collins ( Actor )

... 1942

Spooks Run Wild

Danny ( Actor )

... 1941

Bowery Blitzkrieg

Danny Breslin ( Actor )

... 1941

Flying Wild

Danny Graham ( Actor )

... 1941

Give Us Wings

Rap ( Actor )

... 1940

Pride of the Bowery

Danny ( Actor )

... 1940

That Gang of Mine

Danny Dolan ( Actor )

... 1940

Military Academy

Dick Hill ( Actor )

... 1940

You're Not So Tough

Rap ( Actor )

... 1940

Boys of the City

Danny Dolan ( Actor )

... 1940

Young Tom Edison

Joe 'Joey' Dingle ( Actor )

... 1940

On Dress Parade

Cadet Ronny Morgan ( Actor )

... 1939

Dust Be My Destiny

Jimmy Glenn ( Actor )

... 1939

Angels Wash Their Faces

Bernie Smith ( Actor )

... 1939

Hell's Kitchen

Joel "Joey" Richards ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

Off the Record

Mickey Fallon ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1938

My Bill

Reginald Colbrook ( Actor )

... 1938

Reformatory

Pinkey Leonard ( Actor )

... 1938

Crime School

Lester 'Squirt' Smith ( Actor )

... 1938

A Slight Case of Murder

Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom ( Actor )

... 1938

Dead End

Angel ( Actor )

... 1937

Kid Millions

Tourist (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934