Richard Gordon

Nacimiento : 1921-09-15,

Historia

Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon Stanley Ostlere (born 15 September 1921), an English surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere has written numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He is most famous for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme starting with Doctor in the House, and the subsequent film, television, radio and stage adaptations. His The Alarming History of Medicine was published in 1993, and he followed this with The Alarming History of Sex.

Películas

Doctor in Clover
Doctor in Clover
Novel
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.
La maldición del voodoo
La maldición del voodoo
Producer
Un cazador blanco mata a un león sagrado, y, de vuelta a la civilización, se ve perseguido por una extraña maldición.
Doctor in Love
Doctor in Love
Novel
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
El estrangulador fantasma
El estrangulador fantasma
Producer
Un relato de misterio acerca de la investigación de macabros crímenes cometidos por un siniestro psicópata.
Doctor at Large
Doctor at Large
Novel
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.
Un médico en la marina
Un médico en la marina
Screenplay
El joven médico Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) ejerce su profesión en “El Loto”, un buque de carga dirigido por el autoritario y borrachín Capitán Hogg. Allí conoce a los personajes más excéntricos y se ve involucrado en situaciones bastante embarazosas. Cuando en Río ve a Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot), una joven y atractiva cantante francesa, cae rendido a sus pies.
Un médico en la familia
Un médico en la familia
Screenplay
Simon Sparrow es un joven estudiante de medicina que llega al hospital de St Swithin's de Londres. Animado por sus amigos, empieza a salir con una enfermera de la que acaba enamorándose.