Bobby Jordan

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1923-04-01
  • event Death Date 1965-09-10
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 3.2
  • info Birth Place Harrison, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Bobby Jordan

7.5

High Tor

1956-03-10

6.6

Kid Dynamite

1943-02-05

6

Let's Get Tough

1942-05-29

6.1

Mr. Wise Guy

1942-02-20

6.1

Pride of the Bowery

1940-12-15

6.3

They Made Me a Criminal

1939-01-21

6.3

Dust Be My Destiny

1939-09-16

6

Reformatory

1938-06-20

6.1

A Slight Case of Murder

1938-02-26

7

Dead End

1937-08-27

7.6

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938-11-26

4.8

Spooks Run Wild

1941-10-24

6.1

Bowery Blitzkrieg

1941-08-01

4.8

The Man Is Armed

1956-10-19

4.2

Ghosts on the Loose

1943-07-30

4.7

Spook Busters

1946-08-24

6.3

Crime School

1938-05-10

5.4

Boys of the City

1940-07-15

5.9

Flying Wild

1941-03-10

6

Bowery Bombshell

1946-07-20

6.5

Bowery Buckaroos

1947-11-22

6.4

Angels Wash Their Faces

1939-08-26

6

Smart Alecks

1942-08-07

5.6

Treasure of Monte Cristo

1949-08-27

10

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991-01-01

5.8

Swingtime in the Movies

1938-12-24

6.2

Hell's Kitchen

1939-07-08

6.3

In Fast Company

1946-06-22

6.3

On Dress Parade

1939-11-18

6

Off the Record

1939-01-21

0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4

1942-01-01

6.8

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge

1942-11-20

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

0

The Matchmaking Marshal

1955-05-08

4.3

You're Not So Tough

1940-07-26

6.5

Kid Millions

1934-11-10

5.6

Young Tom Edison

1940-03-15

5.6

That Gang of Mine

1940-09-23

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

5.5

Keep 'Em Slugging

1943-03-01

0

Secret of Outlaw Flats

1953-11-15

6.6

Destroyer

1943-08-19

5

The Eddie Cantor Story

1953-12-25

6.4

Hard Boiled Mahoney

1947-05-10

5.5

Military Academy

1940-08-06

6.5

The Beginning or the End

1947-02-19

6.5

Dragnet

1951-12-16

7.1

Rawhide

1959-01-09

5

The Millionaire

1955-01-19

6

Lux Video Theatre

1950-10-02

6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

1957-07-01

5.2

M Squad

1957-09-20

4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951-04-15

5.5

Casey Jones

1957-10-08

6.8

Maverick

1957-09-22

6.4

Route 66

1960-10-07

6.8

Maverick

1957-09-22

6.7

77 Sunset Strip

1958-10-10

7.6

Bonanza

1959-09-12

7.9

The Odd Couple

1970-09-24

4

The Adventures of Boston Blackie

1951-09-08