Bobby Jordan
Actor

Bobby Jordan Net Worth

He died there on August 30, 1965. Bobby Jordan was a child actor born in 1923 in Harrison, New York. He made his stage debut in 1930 and film debut in 1931, and was part of the Dead End Kids in 1935. He was signed to Warner Brothers and made $1,500 a week, and appeared in The Little Tough Guys and East Side Kids films. He was drafted in 1943 and returned to Universal in 1946 to appear in the first Bowery Boys picture. He married in 1946 and had a son in 1949, but divorced in 1957 and declared bankruptcy in 1958. He died in 1965 due to cirrhosis of the liver.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day April 01, 1923
Birth Place  Harrison, New York, United States
Age 97 YEARS OLD
Died On September 10, 1965(1965-09-10) (aged 42)\nLos Angeles, California, United States
Birth Sign Taurus
Cause of death Cirrhosis of the liver
Occupation Actor
Years active 1929–1961
Spouse(s) Lee Jordan (1946-1957) (divorced)

💰 Net worth

Bobby Jordan, a renowned actor and soundtrack artist hailing from the United States, is anticipated to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M by 2024. Recognized for his impressive body of work on the big screen, Jordan has entertained audiences with his remarkable performances and contributed to various soundtracks. With his talent and skill, it comes as no surprise that his financial success continues to grow, making him a prominent figure in the entertainment industry.

Biography/Timeline

1920

His mother took him to talent shows in and around Harrison, New York. He also modeled for newspaper and magazine advertisements and appeared in short films and radio programs. In the late 1920s, his family moved to the upper west side of Manhattan. In 1929, he was cast as Charles Hildebrand in the 1929 Broadway play, Street Scene.

1933

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.

1938

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).

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 that forced him to have surgery to remove his right kneecap.

1945

When Jordan returned to films in 1945, he found that his former gang-mates Gorcey and Hall were obtaining the lion's share of both the content and the salary for the new Bowery Boys film series. Dissatisfied with his background status, he left the series after eight entries, and made only a few films thereafter.

1957

On July 1, 1957, Jordan played Bob Ford, the assailant of Jesse James, in the Dale Robertson television series, Tales of Wells Fargo. The episode ends some two months before Ford assassinated James in the latter's residence in St. Joseph, Missouri. Hugh Beaumont appeared in the episode as Jesse James.

1965

On August 25, 1965, he entered the Veterans Hospital in Sawtelle, California, for treatment of cirrhosis of the liver. He died on September 10, 1965, at the age of 42. Of his former Dead End Kid and East Side Kid co-star, Leo Gorcey once observed, "Bobby Jordan must not have had a guardian angel." One of his last performances was in a Bonanza episode, "The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch", where he played one of Bullet Head Burke's right hand men.

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