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Leo Gordon. Actor: Maverick. Big, burly character actor, one of the toughest of screen heavies. New York-born Leo Gordon's combination of a powerful physique, deep, menacing voice and icy, withering glare was guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of even the bravest screen hero. Director Don Siegel, who used Gordon in his prison film Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), once said that "Leo Gordon ...
Desert Sun, Volume 42, Number 260, 4 June 1969 —. Leo Gorcey Dies, 52. [ARTICLE] OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)-Mil-lions of movie fans of the 1930s knew actor Leo Gorcey as the leader of Hollywood’s “Dead End Kids”—an urban slum boy with a heart of gold. Gorcey, whose funeral services will be Friday, rose to stardom in the street kid role ...
Lynn Cartwright. Actress: A League of Their Own. Frequently appearing for or alongside her actor/writer husband of 50 years, noted stage, screen and TV heavy and writer Leo Gordon, actress Lynn Cartwright is probably best remembered for one of her early screen roles as the brusque, Brooklyn-accented switchboard operator in the cult horror The Wasp Woman (1959), and for her touching final ...
26 de dic. de 2000 · Leo Vincent Gordon (December 2, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American film and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. During more than 40 years in film and television, he was frequently cast as a supporting actor playing brutish bad guys. Description above from the Wikipedia Leo Gordon licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Overview. This program took place in the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, one of the Old West's most notorious towns and the site of the shootout known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.Located south of Tucson, Tombstone was then known by the sobriquet "the town too tough to die". The program's theme song, "Whistle Me Up a Memory", was written by William M. Backer and performed by ...
Biography. Powerfully built and perpetually wearing a baleful, cringe-inducing stare, character actor Leo Gordon loomed tall as the villain in dozens of Westerns and melodramatic crime films during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. He once served time in San Quentin State Prison but it's his flinty voice and bulldog-like under bite that have caused ...
3 de oct. de 2023 · Leo O’Brien’s cause of death may remain a mystery, but his legacy lives on through his work and his son. His performance as Richie Green in The Last Dragon is still admired by many people who grew up watching the film or discovered it later. He brought joy and laughter to millions of viewers with his witty lines and cool attitude.