Leo Gorcey - Famous Actor

Leo Gorcey Net Worth

$500,000

Famous for playing the leader of a young group of hooligans, Leo Gorcey had a successful career in acting with more than 90 credits to his name. Although he amassed a net worth of $500 thousand, after adjusting for inflation, he passed away at the age of 51 in June 1969.

Key facts:

Leo Gorcey Key Facts:
  • Leo Gorcey was an American actor known for playing the leader of a young group of hooligans which would be known as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids, and The Bowery Boys.
  • He had more than 90 acting credits to his name including starring in films such as Dead End, Angels with Dirty Faces, and They Made Me a Criminal.
  • Nearly half of his roles came starring as the characters Muggs McGinnis or Slip Mahoney.
  • Leo Gorcey's acting career lasted over 25 years before his passing.
  • His portrayal of tough and streetwise characters had a significant impact on American film and pop culture.

Basic Information About Leo Gorcey

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor
Net worth$500,000
Date of birth1917-06-03
Place of birthNew York City
Date of death1969-06-02 (aged 51)
NationalityUnited States of America
Curiosities and TrademarksHis pinned up fedora
GenderMale
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

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Leo Gorcey roles

Movie / Series Role
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad WorldFirst Cab Driver

Leo Gorcey's Movie/Shows Salary

Movie / Series Salary
Crashing Las VegasΒ (1956)$22,500

Leo Gorcey's Quotes

  • [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.
  • [about his parents] Russian Jew and Irish Catholic, that's about as mixed as you can get without trying too hard.
  • [About William 'Billy' Benedict (Whitey) 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.
  • [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.

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Interesting Facts about Leo Gorcey

  1. Removed from the final cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album because he requested a fee.
  2. Son of actor Bernard Gorcey. Older brother of David Gorcey. Father of Leo Gorcey Jr.. Father of Brandy Gorcey Ziesemer.
  3. Interred at Molinos Cemetery, Los Molinos, California, USA.
  4. 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.".
  5. He was president of his high school drama club.
  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. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 188-189. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
  8. 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.
  9. His first wife left him for the same man he went into business with on a radio program - Groucho Marx. From there, Groucho became Leo's first "husband-in-law" and one of his best friends.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. During filming of Crashing Las Vegas (1956), Gorcey was so despondent over his father's death that he often drank heavily between takes and had to be literally carried off the set by crew members.

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  • Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leo_Gorcey_in_Gallant_Sons_trailer.jpg
  • Original Source: Gallant Sons trailer
  • Author: Trailer screenshot
  • Date taken: 1940

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