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Leo Gorcey
Known for: ActingLeo Gorcey's parents were actor Bernard Gorcey (born 1888) who stood 4' 10", and Josephine Condon (born 1901), who stood 4' 11" and weighed 95 pounds; they worked in vaudeville in New York. In 1915, 14-year-old Josephine gave birth to Fred. In 1917, Leo was born, a large baby at 12 lb. 3 oz.; as an adult he would be 5' 6". In 1921 his brother David Gorcey was born. In 1935, Leo and David appeared in the stage play "Dead End." In 1937, this was made into a movie, and Leo became one of the busiest actors for the next 20 years -- from 1937-1939 he starred in seven Dead End Kids movies, from 1940-1945 in 21 East Side Kids films, from 1946-1956 in 41 Bowery Boys movies. In 1939, Leo married 17-year-old dancer Kay Marvis, who appeared in four of his movies. They divorced in 1944 after five years of marriage; she went on to marry Groucho Marx. In 1945, Leo married Evalene Bankston; they divorced in 1948. Leo was to have paid her $50,000 in a divorce settlement; however, when two detectives she hired broke into his home, he retaliated by firing his gun at them. They sued, and Leo countersued for illegal entry and won $35,000 back. In 1949, Leo married Amelita Ward, whom he met while filming Smugglers' Cove (1948). Their marriage produced Leo Gorcey Jr. in 1949, and a baby girl they named Jan (after Leo's producer and manager, Jan Grippo) in 1951. They divorced in 1956. That year Leo married his young nanny, Brandy, who was taking care of his two kids. They had a baby girl, Brandy Jo, in 1958. The couple divorced in 1962. Leo went to the altar one last time in February, 1968, marrying Mary Gannon. He stayed married to her until his death from liver failure on June 2, 1969, in Oakland, California.
Filmography 71
Angels with Dirty Faces
as Bim 
Destroyer
as Seaman Sarecky 
Dead End
as Spit 
Let's Go Navy!
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Jail Busters
as Slip Mahoney 
Bowery Bombshell
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Kid Dynamite
as Muggs McGinnis 
Mr. Wise Guy
as Muggs McGinnis 
Invisible Stripes
as Jimmy 
They Made Me a Criminal
as Spit 
Out of the Fog
as Eddie 
Ghosts on the Loose
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as Muggs McGinnis 
Dig That Uranium
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Master Minds
as Slip Mahoney 
Live Wires
as Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney 
Mr. Hex
as Slip Mahoney 
Ghost Chasers
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Triple Trouble
as Slip Mahoney 
Here Come the Marines
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Jalopy
as Terrence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Docks of New York
as Muggs McGinnis 
Let's Get Tough
as Muggs McGinnis 
Spooks Run Wild
as Muggs McGinnis 
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Cecil 
High Society
as Slip Mahoney 
Angels' Alley
as Terence 'Slip' Mahoney 
Fighting Fools
as Slip Mahoney 
Trouble Makers
as Slip Mahoney 
Block Busters
as Muggs McGinnis 
Boys of the City
as Muggs McGinnis 
Hold That Line
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Hold That Baby!
as Slip Mahoney 
No Holds Barred
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Spook Busters
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
The Beloved Brat
as Spike Matz 
Mannequin
as Clifford Cassidy 
Bowery Blitzkrieg
as Muggs McGinnis 
Bowery to Bagdad
as Slip Mahoney 
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
as Slip Mahoney 
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
as Muggs McGinnis 
That Gang of Mine
as Muggs Maloney 
Paris Playboys
as Slip Mahoney 
Hard Boiled Mahoney
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Flying Wild
as Muggs McGinnis 
Angels in Disguise
as Slip Mahoney 
Blonde Dynamite
as Slip Mahoney 
Spy Chasers
as Slip Mahoney 
Pride of the Bowery
as Muggs Maloney 
Lucky Losers
as Slip Mahoney 
Crashing Las Vegas
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Jungle Gents
as 'Slip' Mahoney 
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
as Muggs McGinnis 
Feudin' Fools
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Follow the Leader
as Muggs McGinnis 
Clipped Wings
as Slip Mahoney 
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
as Muggs McGinnis 
Loose in London
as Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney 
In Fast Company
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Private Eyes
as Slip Mahoney 
Come Out Fighting
as Muggs McGinnis 
Clancy Street Boys
as Muggs McGinnis 
Million Dollar Kid
as Muggs McGinnis 
Crazy Over Horses
as Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney 
Bowery Battalion
as Slip Mahoney 
Smart Alecks
as Muggs McGinnis 
Smuggler's Cove
as Slip Mahoney 
Blues Busters
as Slip Mahoney 
Bowery Buckaroos
as Slip Mahoney 
News Hounds
as Terence J. Montgomery 'Slip' Mahoney 
Bowery Champs
as Muggs McGinnis 
Jinx Money
as Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney