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Bobby Jordan

Acting · Born April 1, 1923 · 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.

Movies with Bobby Jordan

• Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) — Swing
• Dead End (1937) — Angel
• Young Tom Edison (1940) — Joe 'Joey' Dingle
• A Slight Case of Murder (1938) — Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom
• Ghosts on the Loose (1943) — Danny
• They Made Me a Criminal (1939) — Angel
• Junior Army (1942) — Jockey
• Reformatory (1938) — Pinkey Leonard
• Live Wires (1946) — Bobby
• The Beginning or the End (1947) — Radioman on Tinian Receiving A-Bomb Message
• Dust Be My Destiny (1939) — Jimmy Glenn
• Swingtime in the Movies (1938) — Crime School Kid (uncredited)