| Full Name | Leo Gorcey |
| Net Worth | $800,000 |
| Date Of Birth | June 3, 1917 |
| Died | June 2, 1969, Oakland, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Height | 1.68 m |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Profession | Actor |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Mary Gannon, Brandy Gorcey, Amelita Ward, Evalene Bankston, Kay Marvis |
| Children | Leo Gorcey Jr., Brandy Jo, Jan Gorcey |
| Parents | Bernard Gorcey, Josephine Condon |
| Siblings | David Gorcey, Fred Gorcey |
| Nicknames | Leo Gorcey, Gorcey, Leo |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0329832 |
| Movies | Dead End, Ghosts on the Loose, Smart Alecks, Clancy Street Boys, Spooks Run Wild, Million Dollar Kid, Bowery Blitzkrieg, Boys of the City, 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge, Flying Wild, Pride of the Bowery, Mr. Wise Guy, They Made Me a Criminal, The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters, Let's Get Tough!, That Gang o... |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Quote |
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| 1 | [observation, as a five-times-married man] Kids have a habit of marrying their first date and spending an awful lot of time wondering what the other dates would have been like. I never made that mistake. I married them all. |
| 2 | [About Billy "Whitey" Benedict from the Bowery Boys movies] I always liked him. We used to fish together and we used to go surf fishing, and one day I stubbed my toe on a rock. I was running out there in a real hurry to catch a sea bass and I stubbed my toe, and it really fascinated me at how interested he was. He wanted to take care of my toe, you know, fix it. Of course he couldn't because it was stubbed, but he really took a sincere interest in it and he taped it up or something. I don't know what he did. It was rather surprising because most times, guy stubs his toe, the other guy says 'that's too bad, you stubbed your toe, that's rough,' you know? I mean that's their attitude...very very nice person. |
| 3 | [about his parents] Russian Jew and Irish Catholic, that's about as mixed as you can get without trying too hard. |
| 4 | [about his father acting in the Bowery Boys movies] I think he was the best actor of the whole group. Where Papa was concerned, he was great. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | He and his agent, Jan Grippo, owned "The Bowery Boys" franchise being produced at Monogram. Dispite his b-movie status, this supposedly made him one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. Grippo was credited as producer until he left the series in 1951 following the death of his wife. |
| 2 | Claimed he and the Dead End Kids used to be friends with Humphrey Bogart, until one day, while Bogart was taking a nap after a hard day of acting and the boys threw a pack of lit firecrackers in through his window. |
| 3 | His first wife left him for the same man he went into business on a radio program - Groucho Marx. From there, Groucho became Leo's first "husband-in-law" and one of his best friends. |
| 4 | He left the Bowery Boys after his father, Bernard, also a frequent co-star in the series, was killed in an auto accident in 1955. |
| 5 | Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 188-189. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 |
| 6 | After being fired from his plumbing job, he accompanied his brother David on an acting job. When one of the other actors fainted, David got Leo to take the role. |
| 7 | He was president of his high school drama club. |
| 8 | When Gorcey was making one of his few non-Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films, 1941's Out of the Fog (1941), he repeatedly blew a simple line of dialog. Fed up, director Anatole Litvak stormed over to him and shouted, "Gorcey, as an actor, you stink!" Stung by this rebuke, Gorcey let fly with a burst of retaliatory fireworks of his own - "Don't you ever, ever scream at me like that again!," Gorcey shouted back, and stormed off the set. A few hours later, he was back, did the scene again ... and blew the line again. This time, Litvak walked over to him quietly, calmly and whispered in his ear, "Gorcey, as an actor, you still stink. And notice that, this time, I'm not shouting.". |
| 9 | Interred at Molinos Cemetery, Los Molinos, California, USA. |
| 10 | Son of actor Bernard Gorcey. Older brother of David Gorcey. Father of Leo Gorcey Jr.. |
| 11 | Removed from the final cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album because he requested a fee. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The Phynx | 1970 | | Leo Gorcey |
| Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar | 1965 | | Leo |
| It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | 1963 | | First Cab Driver |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1962 | TV Series | Windy |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | 1962 | TV Series | Billy Vale |
| Crashing Las Vegas | 1956 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Dig That Uranium | 1955 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Jail Busters | 1955 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Spy Chasers | 1955 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| High Society | 1955 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Bowery to Bagdad | 1955 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Jungle Gents | 1954 | | 'Slip' Mahoney |
| The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters | 1954 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Paris Playboys | 1954 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Private Eyes | 1953 | | Terrence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Clipped Wings | 1953 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Loose in London | 1953 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Jalopy | 1953 | | Terrence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| No Holds Barred | 1952 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Feudin' Fools | 1952 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Here Come the Marines | 1952 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Hold That Line | 1952 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Crazy Over Horses | 1951 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Let's Go Navy! | 1951 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Ghost Chasers | 1951 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Bowery Battalion | 1951 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Blues Busters | 1950 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Triple Trouble | 1950 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Blonde Dynamite | 1950 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Master Minds | 1949 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Angels in Disguise | 1949 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Hold That Baby! | 1949 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Fighting Fools | 1949 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Trouble Makers | 1948 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Smugglers' Cove | 1948 | | Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Jinx Money | 1948 | | Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney |
| So This Is New York | 1948 | | Sid Mercer - Jockey |
| Angels' Alley | 1948 | | Terence 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Bowery Buckaroos | 1947 | | Slip' Mahoney, aka 'Dead-Eye Dan McGurke |
| News Hounds | 1947 | | Terence J. Montgomery 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Hard Boiled Mahoney | 1947 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Mr. Hex | 1946 | | Slip Mahoney |
| Spook Busters | 1946 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Bowery Bombshell | 1946 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| In Fast Company | 1946 | | Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Live Wires | 1946 | | Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney |
| Come Out Fighting | 1945 | | Mugs McGinnis |
| Midnight Manhunt | 1945 | | Clutch Tracy |
| Mr. Muggs Rides Again | 1945 | | Ethelbert Aloysius 'Muggs' McGinnis |
| Docks of New York | 1945 | | Mugs |
| Bowery Champs | 1944 | | Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis |
| Block Busters | 1944 | | Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis |
| Follow the Leader | 1944 | | Muggs McGinnis |
| Million Dollar Kid | 1944 | | Muggs McGinnis |
| Mr. Muggs Steps Out | 1943 | | Muggs McGinnis |
| Destroyer | 1943 | | Sarecky |
| Ghosts on the Loose | 1943 | | Mugs |
| Clancy Street Boys | 1943 | | Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis |
| Kid Dynamite | 1943 | | Muggs McGinnis |
| 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge | 1942 | | Mugs |
| Smart Alecks | 1942 | | Muggs |
| Maisie Gets Her Man | 1942 | | Ceecil |
| Let's Get Tough! | 1942 | | Muggs |
| Sunday Punch | 1942 | | 'Biff' |
| Mr. Wise Guy | 1942 | | Muggs |
| Born to Sing | 1942 | | 'Snap' Collins |
| Spooks Run Wild | 1941 | | Muggs |
| Bowery Blitzkrieg | 1941 | | Muggs |
| Down in San Diego | 1941 | | 'Snap' Collins |
| Out of the Fog | 1941 | | Eddie |
| Angels with Broken Wings | 1941 | | Punchy Dorsey |
| Flying Wild | 1941 | | Muggs |
| Pride of the Bowery | 1940 | | Muggs |
| Gallant Sons | 1940 | | 'Doc' Reardon |
| Hullabaloo | 1940 | | Apartment House Bellhop (uncredited) |
| That Gang of Mine | 1940 | | Muggs Maloney |
| Boys of the City | 1940 | | Muggs McGinnis |
| Invisible Stripes | 1939 | | Jimmy |
| Private Detective | 1939 | | Newsboy (uncredited) |
| On Dress Parade | 1939 | | Slip Duncan |
| Angels Wash Their Faces | 1939 | | Leo Finnegan |
| Hell's Kitchen | 1939 | | Gyp |
| They Made Me a Criminal | 1939 | | Spit |
| Swingtime in the Movies | 1938 | Short | Crime School Kid (uncredited) |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | | Bim |
| Crime School | 1938 | | Spike |
| The Beloved Brat | 1938 | | Spike Matz |
| Mannequin | 1937 | | Clifford |
| Headin' East | 1937 | | Boy Boxer in Gym (uncredited) |
| Portia on Trial | 1937 | | Joe Gannow |
| Dead End | 1937 | | Spit (as Leo B. Gorcey) |
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$800,000
