Bobby Jordan
- Recitazione
- 1 aprile 1923 · Harrison, New York, USA
- 10 settembre 1965
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook · Danny (archive footage)
- Classic Comedy Teams · The East Side Kids (archive footage)
- La strana coppia · Doris Atkins
- Route 66 · Garage Attendant (uncredited)
- Bonanza · Thug #2
- Gli uomini della prateria
- Indirizzo permanente · Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
- Casey Jones · Billy Mapes
- Maverick · Willy, Bank Teller (uncredited)
- Il tenente Ballinger · Car Lot Employee
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective · Connie Thorpe
- The Man Is Armed · Thorne (as Bob Jordan)
- High Tor · 3rd Sailor
- La pattuglia della strada · Ed
- The Matchmaking Marshal · Steven 'Steve' Manson
- The Millionaire · Press Agent
- The Eddie Cantor Story · Customer
- Secret of Outlaw Flats · Sandy Smith
- Dragnet
- Le inchieste di Boston Blackie · Waiter (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok · Conductor
- Lux Video Theatre · Boy at Piano
- Complotto a San Francisco · Tony Torecelli
- Bowery Buckaroos · Bobby
- News Hounds · Bobby
- Hard Boiled Mahoney · Bobby
- La morte è discesa a Hiroshima · 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
- Ombre sul mare · Sobbing Sailor
- Spettri all'arrembaggio · 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 · In persona
- Fantasmi nella notte · Danny
- Bowery Blitzkrieg · Danny Breslin
- Flying Wild · Danny Graham
- Give Us Wings · Rap
- Pride of the Bowery · Danny
- That Gang of Mine · Danny Dolan
- Military Academy · Dick Hill
- You're Not So Tough · Rap
- Boys of the City · Danny Dolan
- Tom Edison giovane · Joe 'Joey' Dingle
- On Dress Parade · Cadet Ronny Morgan
- Dust Be My Destiny · Jimmy Glenn
- Angels Wash Their Faces · Bernie Smith
- Acciaio umano · Joel "Joey" Richards
- Hanno fatto di me un criminale · Angel
- Off the Record · Mickey Fallon
- Swingtime in the Movies · Crime School Kid (uncredited)
- Gli angeli con la faccia sporca · Swing
- My Bill · Reginald Colbrook
- Reformatory · Pinkey Leonard
- Crime School · Lester 'Squirt' Smith
- Un bandito in vacanza · Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
- Strada sbarrata · Angel
- Kid Millions · Tourist (uncredited)