David Gorcey(1921-1984)
- Actor
Leo Gorcey's younger brother, David Gorcey is not usually thought of as
one of the "original" Dead End Kids, but he did have a small role in
the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" - and he is the
person responsible for getting his brother Leo a part in the play.
Ultimately this led to Leo's becoming a movie star while David played
supporting roles and bit parts. Although David is not in the movie
Dead End (1937), he appears in more of the Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery
Boys movies than anyone else except Huntz Hall. Later David became a
clergyman who specialized in helping troubled kids. According to David
Hayes' and Brent Walker's book "The Films of the Bowery Boys", David
Gorcey's funniest role is in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950).
