Trivia

When Gorcey was making one of his few non-Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films, 1941's El mar es testigo mudo (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.".

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.

Removed from the final cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album because he requested a fee.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He was president of his high school drama club.

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.

Interred at Molinos Cemetery, Los Molinos, Tehama County, California, USA. Plot Sec 2.

When Leo, as one of the original Dead End Kids, evolved into a Bowery Boy, his nickname became Slip Mahoney, a sanitized version of his stage and screen character "Spit". He would continue this role until the age of 40.

Son of actor Bernard Gorcey. Older brother of David Gorcey. Father of Leo Gorcey Jr.. Father of Brandy Gorcey Ziesemer.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 188-189. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

Known as Mugsy he and his brother, David,(Pee Wee) who were members of Bowery Boys drank themselves to death.

As at December 1998 Huntz Hall, who was living in France, was the soul surviving member of The Bowery Boys.

Leo Gorcey"s (Slip Mahoney) character was used in the cartoon series Fangface (1978) and Fangface and Fangpuss (1979).