# Robert Gordon (director) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Gordon_(director) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Gordon_(director).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gordon_(director) > Source revision: 1327947471 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American film director This biographical article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this biographical article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Robert Gordon" director – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Bobby Gordon in *The Jazz Singer* (1927) at age 14, as a child actor **Robert Gordon** (August 21, 1913 in [Pittsburgh](/source/Pittsburgh) – December 1, 1990 in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles)) was an American director and actor.[1] 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](/source/Blind_Spot_(1947_film))*, after which he directed several films, including *[The Joe Louis Story](/source/The_Joe_Louis_Story)* in 1953, *[It Came from Beneath the Sea](/source/It_Came_from_Beneath_the_Sea)* in 1955,[2] *[Black Zoo](/source/Black_Zoo)* in 1963; and television series episodes including *[My Friend Flicka](/source/My_Friend_Flicka_(TV_series))*,[3] *[Zane Grey Theater](/source/Zane_Grey_Theater)*, *[The Texan](/source/The_Texan_(TV_series))*, *[Bonanza](/source/Bonanza),* and *[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis](/source/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis)*. Except for [Myrna Loy](/source/Myrna_Loy), who died in 1993, he was the last surviving cast member of *[The Jazz Singer](/source/The_Jazz_Singer)*.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*][4] Gordon directed one film under the pseudonym Robert Edwards, *[Thunder in the Pines](/source/Thunder_in_the_Pines)*, in 1948.[5] Robert Gordon died in 1990 and is interred at [Eden Memorial Park Cemetery](/source/Eden_Memorial_Park_Cemetery) in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles). ## Selected filmography - *[The Jazz Singer](/source/The_Jazz_Singer)* (1927) – Jakie Rabinowitz (age 13) (as Bobby Gordon) - *[Sport of Kings](/source/Sport_of_Kings_(film))* (1947) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Filmography for Robert Gordon"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180116140547/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/981195). *Turner Classic Movies*. Archived from [the original](https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/981195%7C131822/robert-gordon#filmography) on 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-01-15. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Robert Gordon - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie"](https://www.allmovie.com/artist/robert-gordon-p225932). *AllMovie*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180116135039/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/robert-gordon-p225932) from the original on 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-01-15. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Cast and Crew"](http://www.myfriendflicka.com/castandcrew.html). MyFriendFlicka.com. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120101230712/http://www.myfriendflicka.com/castandcrew.html) from the original on 1 January 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["The Jazz Singer (1927)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160618094726/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad85017). Archived from [the original](http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad85017) on June 18, 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Hanson, Patricia King, ed., American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced In The United States, Berkeley: University of California Press. ## Bibliography - Holmstrom, John. *The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995*, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 58–59. ## External links - Media related to [Robert Gordon (director)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Robert_Gordon_(director)) at Wikimedia Commons - Works by or about [Robert Gordon](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_Gordon) at [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) - [Robert Gordon](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330036/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [Robert Gordon](http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/9442/robert-gordon) at Virtual History Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF WorldCat National United States France BnF data Italy Spain Catalonia This article about a United States film director born in the 1910s is a stub. 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