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Colin Gordon

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Colin Gordon
Born(1911-04-27)27 April 1911
British Ceylon
Died4 October 1972(1972-10-04) (aged 61)
Haslemere, Surrey, England
OccupationActor
Years active1934–1972
Spouse(s)
Sidney Eileen Short
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(m. 1936; div. 1943)​

Zena Howard
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(m. 1945, separated)​
Children1

Colin Gordon (27 April 1911 – 4 October 1972) was a British actor. Although primarily a stage actor he made numerous appearances on television and in cinema films, generally in comedies. His stage career was mainly in the West End, but he was seen in the provinces in some touring productions.

Biography

Early years

Gordon was born in British Ceylon, the son of William Arthur Gordon and his wife Lily Vera, née Troup.[1] He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ Church, Oxford.[1] He first appeared on the professional stage in repertory at the Palace Theatre, Watford from January to December 1934.[1] He made his first West End appearance in 1934 as the hind legs of Alfred, the carthorse, in a production of Toad of Toad Hall at the Royalty Theatre.[1] At the same theatre he played James in Frolic Wind (March 1935, described by The Stage as "a distinguished failure"),[2] and Peter in Closing At Sunrise (September 1935).[1] From 1936 to 1939 he directed the Fred Melville Repertory Company in Brixton.[1] He served in the army during the Second World War for six years.[1]

Stage roles 1948–1970

Date Theatre Play Role Notes
Mar 1948 Apollo The Happiest Days of Your Life Rupert Billings received the Clarence Derwent Award
Mar 1951 Wyndham's The Love of Four Colonels Colonel Desmond De S Rinder-Sparrow
Mar 1953 Globe The White Carnation Sir Horace Duncan
Oct 1953 Coronet The Little Hut Henry Broadway debut
Mar 1955 Duchess Misery Me! Julius Ring
Jul 1955 Duke of York's Wild Thyme Seymour Verity
Dec 1956 Aldwych The Touch of Fear Alec Barnes
Mar 1957 Arts The Wit to Woo Percy Trellis
Mar 1959 Guildford Repertory Members Only Percy Also director
May 1960 Theatre Royal, Windsor Handful of Tansy Sir Matthew Carr
Jun 1960 Everyman, Cheltenham I Seem to Know Your Face Percy Also director
Oct 1961 Theatre Royal, Windsor Mr Rhodes Dr Jameson
Mar 1964 On tour March Hares Dr Unwin
Aug 1964 On tour Alibi For a Judge Thomas Empton QC
Aug 1965 Savoy Alibi For a Judge Thomas Empton QC
Nov 1967 Duke of York's Relatively Speaking Philip took over the part from Michael Hordern
Jun 1969 Belgrade, Coventry Never Say Die Richard Blake
Mar 1970 Royal Court A Who's Who of Flapland Cast member
Source: Who's Who in the Theatre.[1]

Screen

Gordon had a long career in British cinema and television from the 1940s to the 1970s, often playing government officials. His films include The Pink Panther and Casino Royale (both with Peter Sellers, alongside whom he made five films). In the ITC series The Prisoner (1967) he portrayed Number Two twice, in "A. B. and C." and later in "The General".[3]

Gordon was a regular in another ITC production, The Baron, playing civil servant Templeton-Green opposite Steve Forrest.[4] He also starred in The Invisible Man (1958 TV series) episode "Play to Kill", (series 1, episode 6, 1959); was the host and occasional narrator of the 1969 London Weekend Television series The Complete and Utter History of Britain, (which arose from a pre-Monty Python collaboration between Michael Palin and Terry Jones); and was the airport commandant in the 1967 Doctor Who story The Faceless Ones.[5][6] He was also in Bachelor Father and made two guest appearances in Steptoe and Son. In 1961 he appeared as the doctor in "The Lift" episode of Hancock's Half Hour.[7] In 1970 he appeared in the UFO episode "The Cat with Ten Lives". He also appeared as Walpole Gibb in the ATV/ITC series Hine in 1971.

Film roles

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Herbert, pp. 843–844
  2. ^ "Colin Gordon", The Stage, 12 October 1972, p. 20
  3. ^ "Colin Gordon - Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  4. ^ Terrace, Vincent (10 January 2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed. McFarland. ISBN 9780786486410 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Complete and Utter History of Britain, The (1969)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  6. ^ "Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide – The Faceless Ones – Details". www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. ^ "The Lift (1961)". BFI. Archived from the original on 26 January 2019.

Sources

  • Herbert, Ian, ed. (1977). Who's Who in the Theatre (sixteenth ed.). London and Detroit: Pitman Publishing and Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-273-00163-8.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Gordon