Robert Gordon (director)

{{short description|American film director}} {{Primary sources|BLP=yes|date=July 2012}} [[File:Robert Gordon in The Jazz Singer (1927).png|300px|right|thumb|Bobby Gordon in ''The Jazz Singer'' (1927) at age 14, as a child actor]] '''Robert Gordon''' (August 21, 1913 in [[Pittsburgh]] – December 1, 1990 in [[Los Angeles]]) was an American director and actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/981195%7C131822/robert-gordon#filmography|title=Filmography for Robert Gordon|website=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=2018-01-15|archive-date=2018-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116140547/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/981195|url-status=dead}}</ref> His acting career, in which he was usually credited as '''Bobby Gordon''', began in 1923 while he was a child, and continued through 1939. His first directing credit came with the 1947 film ''[[Blind Spot (1947 film)|Blind Spot]]'', after which he directed several films, including ''[[The Joe Louis Story]]'' in 1953, ''[[It Came from Beneath the Sea]]'' in 1955,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/robert-gordon-p225932|title=Robert Gordon - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|website=AllMovie|access-date=2018-01-15|archive-date=2018-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116135039/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/robert-gordon-p225932|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Black Zoo]]'' in 1963; and television series episodes including ''[[My Friend Flicka (TV series)|My Friend Flicka]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Cast and Crew|url=http://www.myfriendflicka.com/castandcrew.html|publisher=MyFriendFlicka.com|access-date=15 May 2012|archive-date=1 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101230712/http://www.myfriendflicka.com/castandcrew.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Zane Grey Theater]]'', ''[[The Texan (TV series)|The Texan]]'', ''[[Bonanza]],'' and ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]''. Except for [[Myrna Loy]], who died in 1993, he was the last surviving cast member of ''[[The Jazz Singer]]''.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad85017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618094726/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad85017|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 18, 2016|title=The Jazz Singer (1927)|publisher=}}</ref> Gordon directed one film under the pseudonym Robert Edwards, ''[[Thunder in the Pines]]'', in 1948.<ref>Hanson, Patricia King, ed., American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced In The United States, Berkeley: University of California Press.</ref>

Robert Gordon died in 1990 and is interred at [[Eden Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Los Angeles]]. ==Selected filmography== * ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'' (1927) – Jakie Rabinowitz (age 13) (as Bobby Gordon) * ''[[Sport of Kings (film)|Sport of Kings]]'' (1947)

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==Bibliography== * Holmstrom, John. ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 58–59.

==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * {{Wikisource author-inline|Robert Gordon}} *{{IMDb name|0330036}} *[http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/9442/robert-gordon Robert Gordon] at Virtual History

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