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.
Fotos
Películas (54)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991 · Danny (archive footage)
Classic Comedy Teams
1986 · The East Side Kids (archive footage)
The Man Is Armed
1956 · Thorne (as Bob Jordan)
High Tor
1956 · 3rd Sailor
The Matchmaking Marshal
1955 · Steven 'Steve' Manson
The Eddie Cantor Story
1953 · Customer
Secret of Outlaw Flats
1953 · Sandy Smith
Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949 · Tony Torecelli
Bowery Buckaroos
1947 · Bobby
News Hounds
1947 · Bobby
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947 · Bobby
The Beginning or the End
1947 · Radioman on Tinian Receiving A-Bomb Message
Mr. Hex
1946 · Bobby
Spook Busters
1946 · Bobby
Bowery Bombshell
1946 · Bobby
In Fast Company
1946 · Bobby
Live Wires
1946 · Bobby
Bowery Champs
1944 · Bobby Jordan
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1943 · Jinx Roberts
Destroyer
1943 · Sobbing Sailor
Ghosts on the Loose
1943 · Danny
Clancy Street Boys
1943 · Danny
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943 · Tommy
Kid Dynamite
1943 · Danny Lions
Junior Army
1942 · Jockey
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1942 · Danny Lyons
Smart Alecks
1942 · Danny Stevens
Let's Get Tough
1942 · Danny Connors
Mr. Wise Guy
1942 · Danny Collins
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
1942 · Self
Spooks Run Wild
1941 · Danny
Bowery Blitzkrieg
1941 · Danny Breslin
Flying Wild
1941 · Danny Graham
Give Us Wings
1940 · Rap
Pride of the Bowery
1940 · Danny
That Gang of Mine
1940 · Danny Dolan
Military Academy
1940 · Dick Hill
You're Not So Tough
1940 · Rap
Boys of the City
1940 · Danny Dolan
Young Tom Edison
1940 · Joe 'Joey' Dingle
On Dress Parade
1939 · Cadet Ronny Morgan
Dust Be My Destiny
1939 · Jimmy Glenn
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · Bernie Smith
Hell's Kitchen
1939 · Joel "Joey" Richards
They Made Me a Criminal
1939 · Angel
Off the Record
1939 · Mickey Fallon
Swingtime in the Movies
1938 · Crime School Kid (uncredited)
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · Swing
My Bill
1938 · Reginald Colbrook
Reformatory
1938 · Pinkey Leonard
Crime School
1938 · Lester 'Squirt' Smith
A Slight Case of Murder
1938 · Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
Dead End
1937 · Angel
Kid Millions
1934 · Tourist (uncredited)
Series (15)
The Odd Couple
1970 · Doris Atkins
Route 66
1960 · Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Bonanza
1959 · Thug #2
Rawhide
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
Casey Jones
1957 · Billy Mapes
Maverick
1957 · Willy, Bank Teller (uncredited)
M Squad
1957 · Car Lot Employee
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · Connie Thorpe
Highway Patrol
1955 · Ed
The Millionaire
1955 · Press Agent
Dragnet
1951
Boston Blackie
1951 · Waiter (uncredited)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Conductor
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Boy at Piano