Bobby Jordan
Actor
Born April 1, 1923 in 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 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).
Filmography
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Danny (archive footage)
Classic Comedy Teams
The East Side Kids (archive footage)
The Odd Couple
Doris Atkins
Route 66
Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Bonanza
Thug #2
Rawhide
77 Sunset Strip
Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
Casey Jones
Billy Mapes
Maverick
Willy
M Squad
Car Lot Employee
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Connie Thorpe
The Man Is Armed
Thorne (as Bob Jordan)
High Tor
3rd Sailor
Highway Patrol
Ed
The Matchmaking Marshal
Steven 'Steve' Manson
The Millionaire
Press Agent
The Eddie Cantor Story
Customer
Secret of Outlaw Flats
Sandy Smith
Dragnet
Boston Blackie
Waiter (uncredited)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Tony Torecelli
Bowery Buckaroos
Bobby
News Hounds
Bobby
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Bobby
The Beginning or the End
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
Destroyer
Sobbing Sailor
Ghosts on the Loose
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
Self
Spooks Run Wild
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
Young Tom Edison
Joe 'Joey' Dingle
On Dress Parade
Cadet Ronny Morgan
Dust Be My Destiny
Jimmy Glenn
Angels Wash Their Faces
Bernie Smith
Hell's Kitchen
Joel "Joey" Richards
They Made Me a Criminal
Angel
Off the Record
Mickey Fallon
Swingtime in the Movies
Crime School Kid (uncredited)
Angels with Dirty Faces
Swing
My Bill
Reginald Colbrook
Reformatory
Pinkey Leonard
Crime School
Lester 'Squirt' Smith
A Slight Case of Murder
Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
Dead End
Angel
Kid Millions
Tourist (uncredited)