Leo Gorcey

Leo Bernard Gorcey 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 in which he participated, young Leo was the filmic prototype of the young punk. He was the shortest member of the original gang.

Gorcey was born in New York City, the son of Josephine and Bernard Gorcey, vaudeville actors. His mother wasyears old at the time of his birth, and was already a mother athis father wasyears old. Both were small people. Bernard Gorcey was10, and his wife was11. Their son Leo would reach6 as an adult. In 1921, another son was born to the family, David Gorcey. His father was a Russian Jewish immigrant, and his mother was an Irish Catholic immigrant.

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