Don Gordon

Don Gordon

Birth : 1926-11-13, Los Angeles, California, USA

Death : 2017-04-24

History

Don Gordon was an American film and television actor, best known for playing in feature films alongside his friend Steve McQueen, such as "Bullitt", "Papillon" and "The Towering Inferno", as well as the western series "Wanted: Dead or Alive".

Profile

Don Gordon

Movies

Scene Missing
Self
The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Self
Friends, family, co-stars and admirers of actor Steve McQueen talk about his life and his movie career.
The Borrower
Charles Krieger
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.
The Exorcist III
Ryan
Fifteen years after the original film, the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is investigating a baffling series of murders on Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased serial killer. His investigation eventually leads him to a catatonic patient in a psychiatric hospital who has recently started to speak, claiming he is The Gemini and detailing the murders, but bears a striking resemblance to Father Damien Karras.
Skin Deep
Curt
Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons — women and alcohol.
Code Name: Vengeance
Harry Applegate
Soldier of fortune, Monroe Bieler, is sent to dole out some American-style justice when the wife and child of an African president are kidnapped by terrorists.
Lethal Weapon
Cop #2
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
Confessions of a Married Man
Bill Parker
A middle-aged man suffering from boredom selfishly walks out on his wife and family in search of excitement and adventure. Before he snaps out of his male-menopause moment, he has a brief affair with a much-younger woman named Jennifer.
The Beast Within
Judge Curwin
A young woman gets raped by a mysterious man-creature, and years later her son begins a horrific transformation into a similar beast.
Omen III: The Final Conflict
Dean
Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.
Out of the Blue
Charlie
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Street Killing
Sgt. Bud Schiffman
In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a high-ranking crime lord.
The Towering Inferno
Kappy
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
The Education of Sonny Carson
Pigliani
A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his release from prison he changes his life.
Papillon
Julot
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
The Return of Charlie Chan
Lambert
Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
The Mack
Hank
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Slaughter
Harry
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South America to finish the mobsters off.
Fuzz
Anthony La Bresca
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Z.P.G.
George
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
The Last Movie
Neville
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
Cannon for Cordoba
Jackson
In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves freedom fighters, so the US government entrusts to General Pershing the capture of General Héctor Córdoba, the most notorious among them.
WUSA
Bogdanovich
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he doesn't agree with it. Rheinhardt finds his cynical detachment challenged by a lady friend, Geraldine, and by Rainey, a neighbour and troubled idealist who becomes aware of WUSA's sinister, hidden purpose. And when events start spinning out of control, even Rheinhardt finds he must take a stand.
The Gamblers
Rooney
Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.
Bullitt
Lt. Delgetti
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
Of Mice and Men
Curly
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
The Lollipop Cover
Screenplay
After learning of his sister's suicide, Nick, a small-time boxer, decides to pay a visit to his sister's junkie lover in Los Angeles, collect some money and pursue an early retirement in Mexico. Along the way, he meets a 9-year-old girl who's been abandoned by her father and together they hitchhike south.
The Lollipop Cover
Nick Bartaloni
After learning of his sister's suicide, Nick, a small-time boxer, decides to pay a visit to his sister's junkie lover in Los Angeles, collect some money and pursue an early retirement in Mexico. Along the way, he meets a 9-year-old girl who's been abandoned by her father and together they hitchhike south.
True Gang Murders
Narrator
Strictly for anyone interested in viewing bloody, bullet-ridden corpses, this documentary looks at newspaper photographs of slain outlaws, mobsters, and Mafiosos starting with Jesse James on up into the mid-20th century. On the earlier side of this chronology are the Younger brothers and few other men, and in the 20th century, notorious gangsters like "Legs" Diamond, Dutch Schultz, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel, and many others not as well known.
Cry Tough
Incho
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
Revolt at Fort Laramie
Jean Salignac
At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the two different factions, but when the fort is attacked by the Sioux, they unite their forces to fight them.
Marty
Young Man
Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
Girls in the Night
Irv Kellener
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Halls of Montezuma
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
Twelve O'Clock High
First patient in base hospital (uncredited)
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.