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