{{short description|Australian actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} [[File:Dorothy Gordon in hills of hate.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Lobby card from ''Hills of Hate'' (1926) with Dorothy Gordon and Gordon Collingridge]] '''Gordon Collingridge''' was an Australian actor during the silent film era. He played many matinee idol type roles, most notably for director Beaumont Smith and opposite Louise Lovely in ''Jewelled Nights'' (1925).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66943426 |title="JEWELLED NIGHTS". |newspaper=The Advocate |location=Burnie, Tas. |date=5 March 1925 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Lovely called him "the male screen star to the manner born."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21009401 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=12 February 1926 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

He had spent a number of years working on Queensland stations.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128148677 |title=Saddle to Steering Wheel. |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Sydney |date=23 March 1924 |accessdate=29 September 2013 |page=20 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== *''Circumstance'' (1922) *''Townies and Hayseeds'' (1923) *''Prehistoric Hayseeds'' (1923) *''The Dingo'' (1923) *''The Digger Earl'' (1924) *''Dope'' (1924) *''Joe'' (1924) *''Jewelled Nights'' (1925) *''Hills of Hate'' (1926) *''The Romance of Runnibede'' (1928) *''Trooper O'Brien'' (1928)

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=1028705|name=Gordon Collingridge}} * [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1831175?lookfor=subject:%22Collingridge,%20Gordon.%22&offset=1&max=1 Biographical cuttings] at National Library of Australia

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