Known for Acting
Gavin Gordon (born Fred Gavin Gordon; April 7, 1901 - April 7, 1983 ) was an American stage, screen, radio, and television actor. Despite it usually being indicated that he died on his 82nd birthday, his tombstone inscription reveals that he actually died one day earlier.
Born
April 7, 1901
Died
April 7, 1983 (age 82)
Birthplace
Chicora, Mississippi, USA
Filmography
62 films, 16 shows
Sylvia
1965 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
The Patsy
1964 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and-dance man as the team grooms him to become a star. But as the date of a high-stakes appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show grows near, they begin to fear that the only astonishing thing about Stanley is his utter lack of talent.
Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · 2h 16m
country: United States
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
All in a Night's Work
1961 · 1h 34m
country: United States
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
The Bat
1959 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
The Matchmaker
1958 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
King Creole
1958 · 1h 56m
country: United States
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Chicago Confidential
1957 · 1h 15m
country: United States
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Johnny Tremain
1957 · 1h 20m
country: United States
When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice Johnny Tremain finds a new life in the ranks of the Sons of Liberty army, taking part in the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's legendary ride.
The Ten Commandments
1956 · 3h 40m
country: United States
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
The Vagabond King
1956 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
Pardners
1956 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.
High Society
1955 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out of his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.
A Life at Stake
1955 · 1h 18m
country: United States
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
White Christmas
1954 · 2h
country: United States
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
Knock on Wood
1954 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
Philo Vance's Gamble
1947 · 1h 2m
country: United States
Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States.
Three on a Ticket
1947 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.
Notorious
1946 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
The Lone Star Vigilantes
1942 · 58m
country: United States
It's Wild Bill Elliot as Wild Bill Hickok in the Columbia B-western Lone Star Vigilantes. Returning from Civil War duty, Hickok, Tex Martin and Cannonball find that their Texas home town is under the rule of Colonel Monroe, a bush-league dictator with his own police force. In true Hitlerian fashion, Monroe extorts huge sums of money from the populace, terrorizing them into silence. Our three heroes set about to put an end to Monroe's regime, with time out for Tex Ritter's musical interludes.
I Killed That Man
1941 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
Suspicion
1941 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Mr. Celebrity
1941 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
Murder by Invitation
1941 · 1h 7m
country: United States
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
Gangs Inc.
1941 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
I See Ice
1938 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
Windjammer
1937 · 1h
country: United States
The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood Cowboy") that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O'Brien's contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O'Brien that ended when O'Brien went into the Navy at the outbreak of WW II. Long-time (past and future) O'Brien director David Howard served as Hirliman's Associate Producer on this film. "Windjammer" finds O'Brien as a subpoena server ordered to serve a subpoena on Brandon Evans (The Commondore) for a senate inquiry or lose his job. Posing as a playboy, he boards the Commodore's yacht during a yacht race, and the yacht is wrecked by a gun-running windjammer commanded by Captain Morgan (William Hall.) All hands are picked up by the windjammer, including the Commodore's daughter (played by Constance Worth) and put to work as galley slaves.
The Toast of New York
1937 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
They Gave Him a Gun
1937 · 1h 34m
country: United States
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
High Hat
1937 · 1h 10m
country: United States
An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
Ticket to Paradise
1936 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
The Leavenworth Case
1936 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.
Page Miss Glory
1935 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Stranded
1935 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Love Me Forever
1935 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
The Good Fairy
1935 · 1h 38m
country: United States
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Red Hot Tires
1935 · 1h 1m
country: United States
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
Women Must Dress
1935 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
Bordertown
1935 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Grand Old Girl
1935 · 1h 12m
country: United States
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Happiness Ahead
1934 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Wake Up and Dream
1934 · 1h 17m
country: United States
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
The Scarlet Empress
1934 · 1h 44m
country: United States
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Lone Cowboy
1933 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his father’s fate Scooter longs to return to his home in Chicago especially after discovering Dobe is an embittered ranch hand hellbent on seeking revenge on his duplicitous wife Eleanor and the man she ran off with. Dobe is dogged in his pursuit until he unwittingly puts Scooter’s life in danger. Seeing the error of his ways the pair ride off together in search of a new adventure.
Female
1933 · 1h
country: United States
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Black Beauty
1933 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
Hard to Handle
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932 · 1h 27m
country: United States
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Man Against Woman
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Two Against the World
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
American Madness
1932 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Hollywood Halfbacks
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931 · 18m
country: United States
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
Secret Service
1931 · 1h 8m
country: United States
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
Shipmates
1931 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.
The Great Meadow
1931 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
The Silver Horde
1930 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Romance
1930 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
His First Command
1929 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Chasing Through Europe
1929 · 1h 2m
country: United States
In London, England, Linda Terry, an American heiress, runs away with freelance newsreel photographer Dick Stallings when her guardian, Phineas Merrill, attempts to place her in an insane asylum for refusing to marry his nephew.