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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 1, 1923
Died
September 10, 1965
Place of Birth
Harrison, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Bob Jordan
- Robert Jordon
- Robert G. Jordan
Bobby Jordan
0.4 Popularity
Biography
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
10.0
Danny (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
0.0
The East Side Kids (archive footage)
Classic Comedy Teams
1986
7.8
Doris Atkins
The Odd Couple
1970
6.3
Garage Attendant (uncredited)
Route 66
1960
7.5
Thug #2
Bonanza
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
6.7
Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
77 Sunset Strip
1958
5.5
Billy Mapes
Casey Jones
1957
6.9
Willy
Maverick
1957
6.9
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Maverick
1957
Credits
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Danny (archive footage)
1991
10.0
Classic Comedy Teams
as The East Side Kids (archive footage)
1986
0.0
The Odd Couple
as Doris Atkins
1970
7.8
Route 66
as Garage Attendant (uncredited)
1960
6.3
Bonanza
as Thug #2
1959
7.5
Rawhide
1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
as Auto Mechanic (uncredited)
1958
6.7
Casey Jones
as Billy Mapes
1957
5.5
Maverick
as Willy
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
1957
6.9
M Squad
as Car Lot Employee
1957
5.2
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Connie Thorpe
1957
6.2
The Man Is Armed
as Thorne (as Bob Jordan)
1956
4.8
High Tor
as 3rd Sailor
1956
7.5
Highway Patrol
as Ed
1955
5.8
The Matchmaking Marshal
as Steven 'Steve' Manson
1955
0.0
The Millionaire
as Press Agent
1955
5.0
The Eddie Cantor Story
as Customer
1953
5.0
Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Sandy Smith
1953
0.0
Dragnet
1951
6.4
Boston Blackie
as Waiter (uncredited)
1951
4.0
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
4.5
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Lux Video Theatre
as Boy at Piano
1950
6.3
Treasure of Monte Cristo
as Tony Torecelli
1949
5.0
Bowery Buckaroos
as Bobby
1947
6.5
News Hounds
as Bobby
1947
6.0
Hard Boiled Mahoney
as Bobby
1947
6.4
The Beginning or the End
as Radioman on Tinian Receiving A-Bomb Message
1947
6.1
Mr. Hex
as Bobby
1946
6.7
Spook Busters
as Bobby
1946
4.8
Bowery Bombshell
as Bobby
1946
6.0
In Fast Company
as Bobby
1946
6.3
Live Wires
as Bobby
1946
5.4
Bowery Champs
as Bobby Jordan
1944
7.0
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
as Jinx Roberts
1943
6.5
Destroyer
as Sobbing Sailor
1943
6.6
Ghosts on the Loose
as Danny
1943
4.2
Clancy Street Boys
as Danny
1943
5.8
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Tommy
1943
5.5
Kid Dynamite
as Danny Lions
1943
6.3
Junior Army
as Jockey
1942
5.7
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
as Danny Lyons
1942
6.1
Smart Alecks
as Danny Stevens
1942
5.2
Let's Get Tough
as Danny Connors
1942
4.8
Mr. Wise Guy
as Danny Collins
1942
6.1
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
as Self
1942
0.0
Spooks Run Wild
as Danny
1941
4.9
Bowery Blitzkrieg
as Danny Breslin
1941
5.8
Flying Wild
as Danny Graham
1941
5.8
Give Us Wings
as Rap
1940
6.0
Pride of the Bowery
as Danny
1940
6.0
That Gang of Mine
as Danny Dolan
1940
5.5
Military Academy
as Dick Hill
1940
5.5
You're Not So Tough
as Rap
1940
4.3
Boys of the City
as Danny Dolan
1940
5.0
Young Tom Edison
as Joe 'Joey' Dingle
1940
5.8
On Dress Parade
as Cadet Ronny Morgan
1939
6.5
Dust Be My Destiny
as Jimmy Glenn
1939
6.2
Angels Wash Their Faces
as Bernie Smith
1939
6.4
Hell's Kitchen
as Joel "Joey" Richards
1939
6.2
Off the Record
as Mickey Fallon
1939
6.0
They Made Me a Criminal
as Angel
1939
6.1
Swingtime in the Movies
as Crime School Kid (uncredited)
1938
5.9
Angels with Dirty Faces
as Swing
1938
7.5
My Bill
as Reginald Colbrook
1938
6.2
Reformatory
as Pinkey Leonard
1938
6.0
Crime School
as Lester 'Squirt' Smith
1938
6.3
A Slight Case of Murder
as Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
1938
6.2
Dead End
as Angel
1937
7.0
Kid Millions
as Tourist (uncredited)
1934
6.5