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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.634 |
Birthday | 1923-04-01 |
Place of Birth | Harrison, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Bob Jordan, Robert Jordon, Robert G. Jordan, |
1943
Kid Dynamite
6.6/4
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend D...
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Kid Dynamite
1942
Let's Get Tough
6/4
Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japa...
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Let's Get Tough
1942
Mr. Wise Guy
6.1/7
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes...
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Mr. Wise Guy
1940
Pride of the Bowery
6.1/9
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain a...
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Pride of the Bowery
1939
They Made Me a Criminal
6.3/30
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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They Made Me a Criminal
1939
Dust Be My Destiny
6.1/16
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter l...
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Dust Be My Destiny
1938
A Slight Case of Murder
6.068/37
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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A Slight Case of Murder
1937
Dead End
6.962/119
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...
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Dead End
1938
Angels with Dirty Faces
7.562/307
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes...
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1941
Spooks Run Wild
4.9/21
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Spooks Run Wild
1941
Bowery Blitzkrieg
6.1/8
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangst...
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Bowery Blitzkrieg
1956
The Man Is Armed
4.8/10
Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a re...
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The Man Is Armed
1943
Ghosts on the Loose
4.167/30
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Ghosts on the Loose
1946
Spook Busters
4.7/3
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandone...
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Spook Busters
1938
Crime School
6.3/18
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck...
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Crime School
1940
Boys of the City
5.4/10
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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Boys of the City
1941
Flying Wild
5.9/8
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting s...
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Flying Wild
1947
Bowery Buckaroos
6.5/4
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted o...
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Bowery Buckaroos
1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
6.4/8
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up wit...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
1942
Smart Alecks
6/7
Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share the...
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Smart Alecks
1949
Treasure of Monte Cristo
5.6/8
A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
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Treasure of Monte Cristo
1938
Swingtime in the Movies
5.7/9
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
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Swingtime in the Movies
1946
In Fast Company
6.3/3
The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
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In Fast Company
1939
On Dress Parade
6.3/3
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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On Dress Parade
1939
Off the Record
6/4
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Off the Record
1942
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
6.8/9
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubho...
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1943
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
6.5/2
Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.
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Adventures of the Flying Cadets
1940
Give Us Wings
6/2
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
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Give Us Wings
1946
Mr. Hex
6.7/3
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
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Mr. Hex
1938
My Bill
6.2/7
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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My Bill
1940
You're Not So Tough
4.3/3
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick bu...
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You're Not So Tough
1934
Kid Millions
6.5/6
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Kid Millions
1946
Bowery Bombshell
6/2
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidate...
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Bowery Bombshell
1943
Clancy Street Boys
7.3/3
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the...
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Clancy Street Boys
1940
Young Tom Edison
5.6/8
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...
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Young Tom Edison
1940
That Gang of Mine
5.6/12
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The m...
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That Gang of Mine
1942
Junior Army
5.7/3
An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
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Junior Army
1944
Bowery Champs
7/2
Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from...
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Bowery Champs
1946
Live Wires
5.5/5
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip man...
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Live Wires
1947
News Hounds
6.3/3
Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring tha...
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News Hounds
1939
Hell's Kitchen
6.2/4
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the i...
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Hell's Kitchen
1943
Keep 'Em Slugging
5.5/4
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangl...
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Keep 'Em Slugging
1953
Secret of Outlaw Flats
0/0
Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
1943
Destroyer
6.567/15
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the c...
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Destroyer
1947
The Beginning or the End
6.5/10
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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The Beginning or the End
1953
The Eddie Cantor Story
5/1
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
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The Eddie Cantor Story
1947
Hard Boiled Mahoney
6.4/5
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment...
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Hard Boiled Mahoney
1940
Military Academy
5.5/2
Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tom...
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Military Academy
1956
High Tor
7.5/2
High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Sch...
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High Tor
1938
Reformatory
6/1
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
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Reformatory
1942
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
0/0
Fourth film in the Hedda Hopper series.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
1955
The Matchmaking Marshal
0/0
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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The Matchmaking Marshal
1991
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
10/1
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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