Actor. He received stardom as an American child actor in the first half of the 20th century. Dancing, acting and playing a saxophone, Robert George Jordan made his stage debut as a six-year-old in 1929 with the role of Charles Hildebrand in New York City's Broadway play "Street Scene." The next year, he was in a film at Warner Brothers Studio. He was given credit for a bit part in the 1934 Eddie Cantor film "Kid Millions." He appeared again on Broadway in "Dead End," which opened on October 28, 1935. He left the show in mid-November 1936 to appear in the Samuel Goldwyn Company film version of "Dead End." After being released from Goldwyn's contract, Warner Brothers studios signed him and all of the "Dead End Kids" to contracts. At the peak of his career, Jordan made $1,500 a week, owned a $150,000 home in Beverly Hills and was the sole support of his mother, two brothers, a sister and a niece. When he was a toddler, his mother pushed him to be a model for magazines, and as a child, he was not offered a formal education but often had classes in the wings of a stage, yet finished the 12th grade. In 1940, he returned to Universal Studios to appear with several "Dead End Kids" in "The Little Tough Guys" series until 1943. Later in 1940, Monogram studios featured him in his first "East Side Kids" film, "Boys of the City." He was the youngest actor, yet the one with the most experience of this ever-changing group of boys who played a bunch of lovable juvenile delinquents in these movies. In June of 1942 during World War II, he was drafted in the United States Army serving in the 97th Infantry through 1945 with his only film appearance being the East Side Kid's "Bowery Champs" in 1944. In 1945, he was involved in an elevator accident, in which he injured his leg seriously and had his right kneecap removed. Between the war experience and his leg injury, his life had changed. In 1946, he appeared in the first "The Bowery Boys" picture, "Live Wires," but, after eight films he left because he was forced to take a backseat to actors Leo Gorcey, and Huntz Hall. He was given background roles at a lower salary. He was not pleased with the last production of the "The Bowery Boys." In March of that year, he married, and in 1949, the couple had a son, Robert Jr. Jordan worked sporadically in film and television afterwards. He tried a nightclub act, then he found additional work as a bartender, a door-to-door photograph salesperson and he later worked as an oil driller in Coalinga, California. Acting was the only profession he knew. By 1957, he was divorced from his wife, abusing alcohol, and in 1958, he declared bankruptcy when he failed to pay alimony and child support. One of his last performances was the role of Bullet Head Burke's right-hand man in the third season of the television series "Bonanza" in the episode "The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch." On August 25, 1965 while living in a friend's home, Jordan collapsed. As a heavy drinker for many years, he was admitted to a Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles for treatment for cirrhosis of the liver and died a couple of weeks later.