Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917 – June 2, 1969) was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying on film the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Always the most pugnacious member of the gangs he participated in, young Leo was the filmic prototype of the young punk. He was the shortest and the oldest of the original gang.
In 1917, 16-year-old Irish-American Josephine (Condon) Gorcey — already a mother at 14 — gave birth to her second son, Leo, in New York City. She and her 31-year-old Jewish husband, Bernard Gorcey, were vaudeville actors; both were small people. Bernard Gorcey was 4' 10, and his wife was 4' 11". Their son Leo would reach 5' 6" as an adult. In 1921, another son was born, David Gorcey. They raised their children in the Jewish faith.
In the 1930s, Leo's father became estranged from the family while working in theater and film. When he returned in 1935, he and David persuaded Leo to try out for a small part in the play Dead End. Having just lost his job as a plumber's apprentice and seeing his father's relative success, Leo decided to give acting a try. Leo and David were cast as two members of the East 53rd Place Gang, with limited stage time. Charles Duncan, who was originally cast as Spit, left the play, and Leo, his understudy, was promoted. Gorcey created a quarrelsome guttersnipe whose greatest joy was in making trouble.
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'Leo Gorcey' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
The Phynx (1970)
Actors: John Hart (actor), Louis Hayward (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Michael Ansara (actor), Dick Clark (actor), Xavier Cugat (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Busby Berkeley (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), James Brown (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), George Jessel (actor),
Plot: An athlete, a campus militant, a black model, and an American Indian are picked by a computer (shaped like a woman) to form a rock group called the Phynx and go on tour in Albania where American show biz people have been kidnapped by Communists. Some of the stars that the phony band rescues: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan (the most famous movie Tarzan and Jane), Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall (the Bowery Boys), Ed Sullivan, James Brown, Colonel Sanders, Guy Lombardo, Andy Devine, Ruby Keeler, Edgar Bergen, Butterfly McQueen, Jay Silverheels (Tonto), Rudy Vallee, Xavier Cugat, Trini Lopez, Dick Clark, Richard Pryor, Harold "Oddjob" Sakata, George Jessel, and Rhona Barrett. Warner Bros. Studios thought it was so bad that they decided at the last minute not to release it!
Keywords: albania, castle, communist, computer, copenhagen-denmark, espionage, kidnapping, london-england, orgy, recordingGenres: Comedy, Music,
Taglines: Of all the American heroes who served their country in it's hour of need - only one had a great rock sound...
Gorcey, Leo Filmography
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2007, role: actor , character name: Muggs Mcginnis
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1986, role: actor , character name: The East Side Kids
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1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1970, role: actor , character name: Leo Gorcey
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1966, role: actor , character name: Leo
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1963, role: actor , character name: First Cab Driver
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1956, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1955, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1955, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1955, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1955, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1955, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1954, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1954, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1954, role: actor , character name: 'Slip' Mahoney
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1953, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1953, role: actor , character name: Terrence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1953, role: actor , character name: Terrence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1953, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1952, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1952, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1952, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1952, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1951, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1951, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1951, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1951, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1950, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip'
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1950, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1950, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1950, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1950, role: actor , character name: 'Slippery' Mahoney
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1949, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1949, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1949, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1949, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1948, role: actor , character name: Terence 'Slip' Mahoney
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1948, role: actor , character name: Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney
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1948, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1948, role: actor , character name: Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney
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1948, role: actor , character name: Sid Mercer - Jockey
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1947, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1947, role: actor , character name: Terence J. Montgomery 'Slip' Mahoney
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1947, role: actor , character name: Slip' Mahoney, aka 'Dead-Eye Dan McGurke
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1946, role: actor , character name: Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney
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1946, role: actor , character name: Slip Mahoney
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1946, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1946, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1946, role: actor , character name: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
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1945, role: actor , character name: Clutch Tracy
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(you're On My) Fighting Side
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All The Little Things That You Do
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You can't say no forever
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No More Lovesongs
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You Are Blind
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(you're On My) Fighting Side
remember you can count on me
i'm on your fighting side
i'm pretty sure it's mutual
you're on my fighting side too
i'll tell you why it hurts
everyone you love, love themselves more
nothings ever gonna change
noone's ever gonna care
but i'm your silver lining, i'm your silver lining
remember you can count on me
i'm on your fighting side
i'm pretty sure it's mutual
you're on my fighting side too
you threw out the phone
so now there's nothing to wait by
you choose it for yourself
but somewhere where you're not
someone that you never meet
is wondering where you are
now, where are you?
remember you can count on me
i'm on your fighting side
i'm pretty sure it's mutual
you're on my fighting side too
I know your heart is broken
you can't even see the fractions of the shape that it
used to be
but it will mend, it will mend now
like the terminator the pieces will come together again
remember you can count on me
i'm on your fighting side
i'm pretty sure it's mutual
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