Bobby Jordan

Acting

Bobby Jordan

Born April 1, 1923 · Harrison, New York, USA

Died September 10, 1965 · aged 42

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 yea…

Known For

Angels with Dirty FacesAngels with Dirty Faces · 1938
Angels with Dirty Faces
★ 7.51938
MovieCrimeDrama
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Dead EndDead End · 1937
Dead End
★ 7.01937
MovieCrimeDrama
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
Young Tom EdisonYoung Tom Edison · 1940
Young Tom Edison
★ 5.91940
MovieDrama
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
They Made Me a CriminalThey Made Me a Criminal · 1939
They Made Me a Criminal
★ 6.31939
MovieCrimeDrama
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
Dust Be My DestinyDust Be My Destiny · 1939
Dust Be My Destiny
★ 6.51939
MovieCrimeDrama
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 leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
DestroyerDestroyer · 1943
Destroyer
★ 6.81943
MovieAdventureDrama
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 crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Dracula: A Cinematic ScrapbookDracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook · 1991
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
★ 9.51991
MovieDocumentaryHorror
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Keep 'Em SluggingKeep 'Em Slugging · 1943
Keep 'Em Slugging
★ 5.81943
MovieActionAdventure
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 tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

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You're Not So ToughYou're Not So Tough · 1940
You're Not So Tough
★ 5.01940
MovieCrimeDrama
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 buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.

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