Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 01, 1923
Died
Sep 10, 1965
Place of Birth
Harrison, New York, USA
Credits
69 titles
Bobby Jordan
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.
Known For
Filmography
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Danny (archive footage)
Classic Comedy Teams
The East Side Kids (archive footage)
The Odd Couple
Doris Atkins
Route 66
Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Bonanza
Thug #2
Rawhide
77 Sunset Strip
Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
Casey Jones
Billy Mapes
Maverick
Willy
M Squad
Car Lot Employee
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Connie Thorpe
The Man Is Armed
Thorne (as Bob Jordan)
High Tor
3rd Sailor
Highway Patrol
Ed
The Matchmaking Marshal
Steven 'Steve' Manson
The Millionaire
Press Agent
The Eddie Cantor Story
Customer
Secret of Outlaw Flats
Sandy Smith
Dragnet
Boston Blackie
Waiter (uncredited)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Lux Video Theatre
Boy at Piano
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Tony Torecelli
Bowery Buckaroos
Bobby
News Hounds
Bobby
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Bobby
The Beginning or the End
Radioman on Tinian Receiving A-Bomb Message
Mr. Hex
Bobby
Spook Busters
Bobby
Bowery Bombshell
Bobby
In Fast Company
Bobby
Live Wires
Bobby
Bowery Champs
Bobby Jordan
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Jinx Roberts
Destroyer
Sobbing Sailor
Ghosts on the Loose
Danny
Clancy Street Boys
Danny
Keep 'Em Slugging
Tommy
Kid Dynamite
Danny Lions
Junior Army
Jockey
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Danny Lyons
Smart Alecks
Danny Stevens
Let's Get Tough
Danny Connors
Mr. Wise Guy
Danny Collins
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
Self
Spooks Run Wild
Danny
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Danny Breslin
Flying Wild
Danny Graham
Give Us Wings
Rap
Pride of the Bowery
Danny