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Leo Vincent Gordon (December 2, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American character actor and screenwriter. During more than 40 years in film and television he was most frequently cast as a supporting actor playing brutish bad guys but occasionally played more sympathetic roles just as effectively.
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 ...
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 ...
Dec 28, 2000 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leo Gordon, a tough-guy actor famous for playing the villain in scores of Westerns and television shows over nearly 50 years, has died at the age of 78. <br><br>Gordon ...
Dec 29, 2000 · Leo Gordon, tough-guy actor famous for playing the villain in scores of Westerns and television shows over nearly 50 years, has died at the age of 78.
Jan 6, 2001 · Leo Gordon, who played villain in scores of westerns and television shows over nearly 50 years, died Dec 26 at age of 78; photo (M)
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.
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...
Leo Vincent Gordon 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 most frequently cast as a supporting actor playing brutish bad guys but occasionally played more sympathetic roles just as effectively.
Dec 30, 2000 · Leo Gordon, writer and tough-guy actor famous for playing the villain in scores of Westerns and television shows over nearly 50 years, died at his Los Angeles home Tuesday after a brief illness.
