1. David Gorcey was an American actor and the younger brother of actor Leo Gorcey.
14 Facts About David Gorcey
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David Gorcey was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, the son of Josephine and Bernard Gorcey.
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David Gorcey's father was a Russian Jewish immigrant and his mother was an Irish Catholic immigrant.
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David Gorcey appeared in vaudeville during his childhood, and eventually made it to the stage and screen.
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When David Gorcey was 10 years old, he was signed by the Vitaphone studio in New York to co-star in its Penrod and Sam series of short subjects, based on the Booth Tarkington stories.
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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.
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When other studios wanted to make their own tough-kid pictures, Leo Gorcey was unavailable and expensive, so younger brother David Gorcey became a more economical second choice.
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David Gorcey became a prolific tough-kid juvenile in such films as Juvenile Court, Sergeant Madden, and Carolina Moon.
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David Gorcey later joined brother Leo in Monogram Pictures' East Side Kids series.
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David Gorcey occasionally appeared apart from the gang, in such films as The Babe Ruth Story, and Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion.
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David Gorcey was married to Dorothea Jocker, with whom he had a son, David Jr.
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David Gorcey was always pleasant and professional to his fellow cast and crew members, unlike his brother Leo who was often argumentative and abusive.
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In 1956, after the death of their father Bernard Gorcey, David visited Leo's home, only to find Leo in a drunken rampage.
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David Gorcey died in Van Nuys, California on October 23,1984, of complications of diabetes.