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Gordon Douglas (director) Gordon Douglas (born Gordon Douglas Brickner; December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American movie director. He was born in New York City. He worked with RKO Films, Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros.. He also directed many Our Gang shorts.
Oct 5, 1993 · Gordon Douglas, film director: born New York 15 December 1907; married three times (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 29 September 1993. Jump to content. US Edition Change.
Sep 29, 2017 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 18336. Source citation. Motion Picture Director. A former child actor in his native New York City, he joined Hal Roach Studios in 1930 and served as a prop boy, bit player, gag writer, and assistant director. In 1936 Douglas was made principal director of the Our Gang shorts and his initial effort, Bored of Education ...
Before he was a well-respected film director, Gordon Douglas was a lowly teenage production intern whose go-getter attitude convinced his boss, famed media mogul Hal Roach, to cast him in the youthfully mischievous short-film series "Our Gang." Already too old to join the central Little Rascals, he was instead given a succession of bit parts.
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951) Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red. Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Millican.
Gordon Douglas Brickner (December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director and actor, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures.
Starting out as a child actor, Gordon Douglas was eventually hired by Hal Roach as a gag writer. His first directorial assignments were for Roach's "Our Gang" series. Graduating to features, Douglas stayed with comedies, directing Oliver Hardy in Zenobia (1939) and both Hardy and Stan Laurel in Saps at Sea (1940).
