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Gavin Gordon

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Birth Date:
07.04.1901
Death date:
07.04.1983
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Actor
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Gavin Gordon (April 7, 1901 – April 7, 1983) was an American film, television, and radio actor.

Life and career

He was born in Chicora, Mississippi. Gordon studied secretarial work. While working as a railway clerk, he attended a film acting school in his spare time.

In Los Angeles, he became secretary to an actor who later gave him his first part on stage at the age of nineteen. After a film test, Gordon starred as Greta Garbo's leading man in Romance (1930). With his distinctive voice, Gordon acted in numerous radio dramas.

He died in Canoga Park, California on his 82nd birthday.

Partial filmography

  • The Medicine Men (1929)
  • His First Command (1929)
  • Chasing Through Europe (1929)
  • Romance (1930)
  • The Silver Horde (1930)
  • Shipmates (1931)
  • Secret Service (1931)
  • American Madness (1932)
  • The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
  • Two Against the World (1932)
  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
  • Black Beauty (1933)
  • Female (1933)
  • Lone Cowboy (1933)
  • The Scarlet Empress (1934)
  • Happiness Ahead (1934)
  • Bordertown (1935)
  • Women Must Dress (1935)
  • Red Hot Tires (1935)
  • Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  • Stranded (1935)
  • Page Miss Glory (1935)
  • Ticket to Paradise (1936)
  • High Hat (1937)
  • The Toast of New York (1937) (uncredited)
  • Windjammer (1937)
  • I See Ice (1938)
  • Paper Bullets (1941)
  • Murder by Invitation (1941)
  • Mr. Celebrity (1941)
  • Suspicion (1941) (uncredited)
  • I Killed That Man (1941)
  • Notorious (1946) (uncredited)
  • Philo Vance's Gamble (1947)
  • White Christmas (1954) (uncredited)
  • There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) (uncredited)
  • High Society (1955)
  • The Vagabond King (1956)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956) (uncredited)
  • Johnny Tremain (1957)
  • Chicago Confidential (1957)
  • King Creole (1958)
  • The Matchmaker (1958)
  • The Bat (1959)
  • Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
  • The Patsy (1964)

TV work

Gordon also started in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, M Squad, Perry Mason, Playhouse 90, The Real McCoys, The Red Skelton Show, Green Acres, Beverley Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, etc.

References

 
  • Film Star Who's Who on the Screen, 1938

Source: wikipedia.org

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