Bobby Jordan
Actor/Actriz
54
Filmes
14
Séries
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.
Como Ator/Atriz
Bonanza
Thug #2
Dragnet
Maverick
Willy
Rawhide
Route 66
Garage Attendant (uncredited)
77 Sunset Strip
Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
The Odd Couple
Doris Atkins
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Connie Thorpe
Highway Patrol
Ed
The Millionaire
Press Agent
M Squad
Car Lot Employee
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Boston Blackie
Waiter (uncredited)
Casey Jones
Billy Mapes
Dead End
Angel
My Bill
Reginald Colbrook
Kid Dynamite
Danny Lions
Military Academy
Dick Hill
Reformatory
Pinkey Leonard
Ángeles con caras sucias
Swing
Junior Army
Jockey
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Danny Breslin
Dust Be My Destiny
Jimmy Glenn
On Dress Parade
Cadet Ronny Morgan
Young Tom Edison
Joe 'Joey' Dingle
Destroyer
Sobbing Sailor
A Slight Case of Murder
Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
Crime School
Lester 'Squirt' Smith
Ghosts on the Loose
Danny
Off the Record
Mickey Fallon