Eugene Francis, an actor, writer and longtime SAG Foundation board member who broke into show business in 1940 as one of the East Side Kids, has died.
He was 100.
Francis played Algernon “Algy” Wilkes alongside Leo Gorcey and Bobby Jordan in the 1940 films Boys of the City, That Gang of Mine and Pride of the Bowery and 1941’s Flying Wild.
He later guested on a few TV shows and wrote for series including Justice, Appopintment with Adventure, The Loretta Young Show, The Geor…
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