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Colin Gordon (27 April 1911 – 4 October 1972) was a British actor born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ Church, Oxford. He made his first West End appearance in 1934 as the hind legs of a horse in a production of “Toad of Toad Hallâ€. From 1936 to 1939 he was a director with the Fred Melville Repertory Company at Brixton. He served in the army during WWII for six years. His performance in 1948 as Rupert Billings in “The Happiest Days of Your Life†won the Clarence Derwent award.
Gordon had a long career in British cinema and television from the 1940s to the 1970s, often playing government officials. His films include The Pink Panther and Casino Royale although he is probably best known for his portrayal of Number Two in the ITC classic series The Prisoner. Along with Leo McKern, he was one of only two actors to play Number Two more than once. He first played the character in “The General” and later reprised his role in “A. B. and C.”. In fact, the episodes were subsequently broadcast in reverse order: when “The General” was in production, “A. B. and C” had not yet been cast.
Gordon was a regular in another ITC production, The Baron playing civil servant Templeton-Green opposite Steve Forrest. He also played the host and occasional narrator of the 1969 London Weekend Television series The Complete and Utter History of Britain, which arose from a pre-Monty Python collaboration between Michael Palin and Terry Jones; and was the Airport Commandant in the 1967 Doctor Who story The Faceless Ones. He was also in Bachelor Father and made a notable guest appearance in The Holiday episode of Steptoe and Son.
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Colin Gordon Biography / Wiki
| Name | Colin Gordon |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka] |
| Date of Birth | 1911-04-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 61 |
| Deathday | 1972-10-04 |
Colin Gordon Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Strongroom | Mr. Spencer | 1962-05-04 | During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan t… |
| The One That Got Away | Army Interrogator | 1957-11-22 | Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only german prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Seco… |
| Night of the Eagle | Lindsay Carr | 1962-04-25 | A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to d… |
| The Key Man | Larry Parr | 1957-06-01 | The host of a radio crime show finds himself mixed up with real gangsters after he re-creates a notorious murder on the air. He uses his knowledge of … |
| The Third Visitor | Bill Millington | 1950-05-03 | Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corp… |
| Keep It Clean | 1956-05-01 | A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League…. | |
| Traveller’s Joy | Tom Wright | 1950-12-25 | A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they … |
| Virgin Island | The Commissioner | 1959-08-07 | A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family’s disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island…. |
| Three on a Spree | Mitchell | 1961-06-28 | A young man will inherit a huge fortune–8 million pounds–but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That’s what … |
| Up to His Neck | Lt. Cmdr. Sterning | 1954-01-01 | A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler…. |
| Up in the World | Fletcher Hethrington | 1956-01-01 | Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go i… |
| Folly to Be Wise | Professor Mutch | 1952-12-04 | A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately … |
| Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones | Commandant | 1967-05-13 | The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the pe… |
| Little Red Monkey | Harry Martin – reporter | 1955-06-03 | Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the U… |
| Green Grow the Rushes | Roderick Fisherwick | 1951-11-06 | Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don’t sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back… |
| Bobbikins | Dr. Phillips | 1959-07-28 | Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult…. |
| The Green Man | Reginald Willoughby-Cruft | 1956-12-21 | Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing … |
| In the Doghouse | Muswell | 1962-05-17 | After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice…. |
| The Running Man | Solicitor | 1963-10-01 | When pilot Rex Black destroys his plane in a crash the day after his insurance policy expires, the insurance company refuses to give him any money. To… |
| The Big Day | George Baker | 1960-07-01 | A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board…. |
| The Pink Panther | Tucker | 1963-12-18 | The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom’s exploi… |
| Alive and Kicking | Bird Watcher | 1959-07-13 | Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an imp… |
| The Hour of 13 | MacStreet | 1952-11-21 | 1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspec… |
| The Body Beneath | Graham Ford | 1970-09-29 | A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. Since inbreeding is destroying the family line, they need new blood to keep the famil… |
| The Horsemasters | Mr. Ffolliott | 1961-10-01 | American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accide… |
| The Crowning Touch | Stacey | 1959-06-01 | Several stories linked by a hat…. |
| Very Important Person | Briggs | 1961-04-24 | Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist … |
| The Trygon Factor | Dice | 1966-12-16 | A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy bu… |
| The Psychopath | Dr. Glyn | 1966-02-04 | Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were p… |
| Grand National Night | Buns Darling | 1953-04-15 | The story of a husband’s implication in his wife’s death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder… |
| Circle of Danger | Col. Fairbairn | 1951-04-17 | An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother’s death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid…. |
| Please Turn Over | Maurice | 1959-12-17 | The orderly suburban life of a 1950’s English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller… |
| The Day They Robbed the Bank of England | Benge | 1960-09-04 | London at the turn of the century. Three men is on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their l… |
| John and Julie | Mr. Swayne | 1955-07-26 | The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth…. |
| His and Hers | TV Announcer | 1961-01-01 | Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charle… |
| Seven Keys | Mr. Barber | 1961-02-01 | Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole … |
| The Devil’s Agent | Count Dezsepalvy | 1962-09-01 | German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his… |
| Bitter Harvest | Charles | 1963-03-08 | A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London i… |
| Jumping for Joy | Max, 1st Commentator | 1956-01-01 | At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who’s not too healthy either. While getting the dog back i… |
| The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery | Noakes | 1966-03-11 | The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school…. |
| Don’t Bother to Knock | Rolsom | 1961-05-28 | An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as … |
| Mandy | Woollard (Junior) | 1952-07-29 | London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. … |
| The Mouse That Roared | BBC Announcer | 1959-07-17 | The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign… |
| A Touch of the Sun | Cecil Flick | 1956-10-01 | A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties…. |
| The Boys | Gordon Percy Lonsdale | 1962-08-31 | A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of … |
| The Man in the White Suit | Hill | 1951-08-07 | The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell… |
| The Family Way | Mr Hutton, Travel Agent | 1966-12-18 | Following the wedding of young Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett), a rowdy reception is held at a local pub where the newl… |
| Helter Skelter | Chadbeater Longwick | 1949-01-07 | A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can’t seem to stop hiccuping…. |
| The Safecracker | Dakers | 1958-03-05 | Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium…. |
| Crooks Anonymous | Drunk | 1962-03-31 | A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart… |
| The Extra Day | Sir George | 1956-01-01 | Director William Fairchild’s 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that’s cur… |
| Laughter in Paradise | Harry – Station Constable | 1951-06-01 | When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something whic… |
| The Long Dark Hall | Pound | 1951-02-06 | A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her…. |
| The Liquidator | Vicar | 1965-11-01 | Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was h… |
| Heavens Above! | Prime Minister | 1963-05-20 | A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and p… |
| The Lady with a Lamp | 1951-09-22 | Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle)… | |
| Golden Arrow | Connelly | 1949-12-31 | On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see…. |
| Bond Street | Clerk in Travel Agency | 1948-05-12 | Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending… |
| Casino Royale | Casino Director | 1967-04-13 | Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be… |
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