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Bobby Jordan
Harrison, New York, USA
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 or…
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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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1991
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Movie Danny (archive footage)
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1986
Classic Comedy Teams
Movie The East Side Kids (archive footage)
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1970
The Odd Couple
TV show Doris Atkins
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1960
Route 66
TV show Garage Attendant (uncredited)
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1959
Bonanza
TV show Thug #2
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1959
Rawhide
TV show
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1958
77 Sunset Strip
TV show Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
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1957
Casey Jones
TV show Billy Mapes
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1957
Maverick
TV show Willy
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1957
M Squad
TV show Car Lot Employee
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1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV show Connie Thorpe
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1956
The Man Is Armed
Movie Thorne (as Bob Jordan)
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1956
High Tor
Movie 3rd Sailor
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1955
Highway Patrol
TV show Ed
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1955
The Matchmaking Marshal
Movie Steven 'Steve' Manson
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1955
The Millionaire
TV show Press Agent
More credits
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1953
The Eddie Cantor Story
Movie Customer
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1953
Secret of Outlaw Flats
Movie Sandy Smith
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1951
Dragnet
TV show
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1951
Boston Blackie
TV show Waiter (uncredited)
- 1951
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Boy at Piano
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1949
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Movie Tony Torecelli
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1947
Bowery Buckaroos
Movie Bobby
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1947
News Hounds
Movie Bobby
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1947
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Movie Bobby
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1947
The Beginning or the End
Movie Radioman on Tinian Receiving A-Bomb Message
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1946
Mr. Hex
Movie Bobby
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1946
Spook Busters
Movie Bobby
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1946
Bowery Bombshell
Movie Bobby
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1946
In Fast Company
Movie Bobby
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1946
Live Wires
Movie Bobby
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1944
Bowery Champs
Movie Bobby Jordan
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1943
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Movie Jinx Roberts
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1943
Destroyer
Movie Sobbing Sailor
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1943
Ghosts on the Loose
Movie Danny
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1943
Clancy Street Boys
Movie Danny
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1943
Keep 'Em Slugging
Movie Tommy
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1943
Kid Dynamite
Movie Danny Lions
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1942
Junior Army
Movie Jockey
